Daniel Levitin Quotes
Collective music making... may have historically served to promote feelings of group togetherness and synchrony, and may have been an exercise for other social acts...Daniel Levitin
Quotes to Explore
-
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
Gavin Bryars -
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
Eddie Redmayne -
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
Gary Zukav -
I enjoy Saturday night racing.
Dale Earnhardt -
My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
J. D. Vance -
Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
Oliver Reed
-
Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
Venerable Bede -
I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
Rain -
Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
Dan Brown -
For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
Kate Micucci -
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama
-
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons -
I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward -
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
Barbara Jordan -
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
Cameron Crowe -
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
Ira Glass
-
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Samora Machel -
It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.
Christine Flores -
The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.
Luther Strange -
She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
Yancy Butler -
Collective music making... may have historically served to promote feelings of group togetherness and synchrony, and may have been an exercise for other social acts...
Daniel Levitin