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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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