The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully i…

- Daniel Levitin

Although I don't know Paul McCartney, a mutual friend told me that Paul was reading my book, This Is Your Brain on Music, and stopped after chapter t…

- Daniel Levitin

Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting …

- Daniel Levitin

The most important, the longest lasting, the strongest emotional, and the most practiced memories are the ones that are embedded the deepest in the b…

- Daniel Levitin

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

- Daniel Levitin

Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty e…

- Daniel Levitin

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

- Daniel Levitin

Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love of another person, of …

- Daniel Levitin

We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made informa…

- Daniel Levitin