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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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