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Daniel Levitin on Music

born 1957 United States

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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.

Music, or any art form... has to strike the right balance between simplicity and complexity.

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)

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

The World in Six Songs (2008)

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

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.

This is Your Brain on Music (2006)

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