Daniel Levitin Quotes

born 1957 United States

United States
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Also known as: Daniel J Levitin, Daniel J Levitin PhD FRSC, Daniel J. Levitin, Daniel J. Levitin PhD, FRSC, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD FRSC, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, FRSC

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We can say that speaking French "runs in families," but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

We may have had music before we had a word for it.

The World in Six Songs (2008)

Mozart had extensive training from his father, who was widely considered the greatest living music teacher in all of Europe at the time.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.

The Organized Mind (2014)

Music has been a shaping force... music has been there to guide the development of human nature.

The World in Six Songs (2008)

On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody—the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes—regardless of the size of the interval.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Your brain on music is all about... connections.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

In songbirds, it is generally the male of the species that sings, and for some species, the larger the repertoire, the more likely it is to attract a mate.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The Organized Mind (2014)

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.

The World in Six Songs (2008)

The emerging picture from... studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of master associated with being a world-class expert—in anything.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

The information age has off-loaded a great deal of work previously done by people we could call information specialists onto all of the rest of us.

The Organized Mind (2014)

You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

The Organized Mind (2014)

Memory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations.

The Organized Mind (2014)

Studies of violin players by Thomas Elbert have shown that the region of the brain responsible for moving the left hand... increases in size as a result of practice.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

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...

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

It involves a precision choreography... between logical prediction systems and emotional reward systems.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Evolution doesn't design things... The brain is... like a big, old house with piecemeal renovations done on every floor, and less like new construction.

The Organized Mind (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Levitin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.