Daniel Levitin Quotes
Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
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I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
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I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response.
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Big Oil is a club, and they'll do everything to keep me out.
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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
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I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.
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Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.
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All reading should be pleasurable! I don't like people who keep reeling out the 'books are so important' line. First and foremost, reading is about entertainment, the same as movies, video games and music.
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I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.
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Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high.
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I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
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As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.
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Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.
