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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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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'Troublemaker' is not an adaptation of 'Metro Girl' or 'Motor Mouth.' It is an original story. The hardest part was probably trying to keep the sound true to the novels. I always write in first person, and it was important to us that the readers of 'Metro' and 'Motor' be comfortable with the change over to a graphic novel.
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I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.
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I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.
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The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny.
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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.
