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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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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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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I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
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I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
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I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
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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.
