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Compatible Quotes: Music And Medicine

Music was probably born of the natural rhythms of life. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise when people who dedicate themselves to life science release their creative energy in music. – Karen Schmidt in the journal Yale Medicine, 1998

…music is my heritage, I cannot help it – Albert Schweitzer

I gave up my position of professor in the University of Strausbourg, my literary work, and my organ playing, in order to go as a doctor to equatorial Africa -Albert Schweitzer, The Primeval Forest

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Doug Ramsey

Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

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