Daniel J. Levitin > Quotes

“Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

“A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact. with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

“The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its very nature is contextual and changeable, dependent on point of view, and that today's truths becomes tomorrow's disproven hypotheses of forgotten objet d'arts.”
― Daniel J. Levitin

“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature