Good Scientific American article: Why Music Moves Us by Karen Schrock.
“Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling,” Sacks professes. “It is a way of connecting one consciousness to another. I think the nearest thing to telepathy is making music together.”
Yep!
I love playing music. It’s right up there with making love and dancing. Sometimes I think if all goes to hell in a hand basket and I have to sit on a street corner with my squeeze to make money, I’d do it. And I’d be in very good company 
Check out these stellar musicians on a cold street corner in the Hague. Spectacular playing.
A recent Gallup survey by NAMM shows some serious appreciation of music and those who make it.
According to the survey most Americans believe music-making is beneficial for kids and teens. And a striking eighty-five percent who do not play a musical instrument say they wish they had learned to play.
No doubt they heard about our thicker than average corpus callosums.
