Daniel Levitin Quotes
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
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My life today in the music business is fairly unique, I think, as I don't really go out and gig with Cutting Crew weekend on weekend.
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I love being in anything that's scary to people.
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There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.
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It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
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What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
