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.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Sound

• 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.

  

  Kaki King
  • Important
  • Universe
  • Moment

• There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Austin

• Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Writing
  • Being
  • Try

• What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Strength

• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Writing
  • Wise
  • Riches

• 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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• 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.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• The unknown is always frightening.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Always
  • Unknown
  • Frightening

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

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Thoughts

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Life
  • Important
  • America

• If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Believe
  • Inspiring
  • Graduation

• I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • People
  • Work
  • Comic Books

• If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.

  

  Max Levchin

• I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

  

  Hart Bochner
  • World
  • Scene
  • Directing

• Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • Important
  • Writing