Daniel Levitin Quotes
Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.
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Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.
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You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.
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Both poetry and lyrics and all visual arts draw their power from their ability to express abstractions of reality. ...that is a feature of the musical brain.
