“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth;… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“The lie that terrorists want you to believe is that you are in immediate and great peril.” — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“The work of artists and scietists is ultimately the pursuit of truth, but members of both camps understand that truth is its very nature… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.” — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“Would they prefer to talk to the person next to them or sit quietly by themselves? Overwhelmingly, people said they’d rather sit by themselves—the… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“When they find out what I do for a living, many people tell me they love music listening, but their music lessons 'didn't take.'… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“Getting organized can bring us all to the next level in our lives. It’s the human condition to fall prey to old habits. We… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“Writing them down gives both implicit and explicit permission to the rehearsal loop to let them go, to relax its neural circuits so that… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
