Daniel Levitin Quotes

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

Music - it speaks to everyone. Music speaks to everyone on so many different levels.

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

People will not lend you a hand until you first touch their hearts.

Everything I've ever felt, but could never put into words, is poetically orchestrated through Mat Devine 's writing. In a lonely world, a book like this will make you feel like you belong. Simply put, Weird War One changed my life.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

It's, like, you know, if you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

The best talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages, talking about their weeks in the hospital or the way meat has gone up, or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.