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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Ask First Lead Place Question Think Window
Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Draw Knowing Mistrust Poetry Produce Rhythm
That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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