Daniel Levitin Quotes
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
Quotes to Explore
-
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
-
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
-
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
-
Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
-
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
-
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
-
What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
-
Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
-
When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
-
Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
-
When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
-
New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
-
Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.
-
I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
-
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
-
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
-
A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
-
Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
-
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
-
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
-
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
-
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
