Quotes by : Daniel J. Levitin

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the....

Ambiguity begets participation.

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions,....

Ideally, friends are people with whom we can be our true selves, with whom we can fearlessly let our....

Each time we check a Twitter feed or Facebook update, we encounter something novel and feel more connected....

If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician....

It’s usually obvious when you’re talking to somebody a level above you, because they see lots of....

[Texting] discourages thoughtful discussion or any level of detail. And the addictive problems are compounded....

But the remembering is imperfect; the instructions for which neurons need to be gathered and how exactly....