Daniel Levitin Quotes

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

Daniel Levitin

• Music
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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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• 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.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Trying
  • English

• I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Music
  • Love
  • Base

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• 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'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• 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.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Something
  • Pressure

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• 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.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Music
  • Together
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Music
  • Record
  • Comfortable

• 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.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Society
  • Wife

• The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Me
  • New

• If you are disappearing from yourself, but you're still writing, then there is a kind of activity of thinking going on, which in my world is similar to what's going on in music.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • World
  • Music
  • Thinking

• No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me as an Iranian girl, then I cannot play an Iranian girl. If you aren't perceived as a full black girl, then it makes it more difficult to play a black girl on TV.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • May
  • Black

• Look, it was an accident. Five thousand accidents happen every day - bizarre, tragic, farcical... they're Acts of God fit only to amaze the survivors and irritate the Insurance Company...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • God
  • Insurance

• I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Money
  • Player
  • Couple

• What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Emotional