The basal ganglia and cerebellum are activated by music and are relevant to motivation.

“there are two other sets of brain circuits that are activated by music that deserve specific attention and deserve that specific attention now in the context of discussing motivation and music's ability to motivate Us in particular ways and those brain circuits are the basal ganglia okay so this is a set of circuits within the brain they're associated with action initiation so-called go circuits and withholding action so-called no-go circuits but basically the basal ganglia are involved in regulating movement and the cerebellum the cerebellum is sometimes referred to as the mini brain it looks like a little mini brain in the bottom back of the human brain”