Daniel Levitin Quotes
Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
Quotes to Explore
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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The unknown is always frightening.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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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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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'
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For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.
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My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.
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Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.
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I'm not a huge Steven Spielberg nerd, but I know about him and I know of his work.
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Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
