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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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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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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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.
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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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Being self-supporting is important to me.
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Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'
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The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.
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Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!
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Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
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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.
