Daniel Levitin Quotes

Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.

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• The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • Gun
  • Going

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Know
  • Fashion

• I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.

  

  Halsey
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Harmony

• I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Girl
  • Know
  • Normal

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• 'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Dog
  • Wall
  • Voice

• I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Like

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Going

• An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Insurance
  • Accomplishment

• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • People
  • Audience
  • Twitter

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Will

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

  

  Lucas Grabeel
  • Kids
  • Nice

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Why
  • Song

• Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Movie

• It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Music
  • Real
  • Band

• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Money
  • Food

• Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • History
  • Dance