Daniel Levitin Quotes
Music changed more between 1963 and 1969 than it has in the 37 years since, with the Beatles among the architects of that change.
Daniel Levitin
Quotes to Explore
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
Vernon Howard
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
Danica Patrick
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
Natalie Wood
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
Patricia Heaton
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
Ted Sarandos
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
Umberto Eco
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
Carl Weathers
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand
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No man may make another free.
Zora Neale Hurston
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
Patricia Heaton
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
Sam Hunt
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
Randy Moss
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
B. D. Wong
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For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.
Saint Augustine
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
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The more naps you take, the more awakenings you experience.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together.
Paul Rodgers
Bad Company
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Music changed more between 1963 and 1969 than it has in the 37 years since, with the Beatles among the architects of that change.
Daniel Levitin
