Matthew Bizer’s Reviews > I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine > Status Update

“Loving music requires that we be receptive to it, that we make the mental space and time to allow ourselves to give into it, to be won over by it. If our defenses are up—as they can be in clinical, therapeutic environments—it may simply not work. Or it can catch us by surprise, evoking some of the deepest memories and deepest feelings of our lives, and in the process, help us through almost anything.”