Quotes by Daniel Levitin

Daniel Levitin

A song playing comprises a very specific and vivid set of memory cues. Because the multiple-trace memory models assume that context is encoded along with memory traces, the music that you have listened to at various times of your life is cross-coded with the events of those times. That is, the music is linked to events of the time, and those events are linked to the music.

Events

Memories

Song

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 two. McCartney said he was concerned that if he learned more about how he does what he does (as far as composing music), he may not be able to do it anymore!

Book

Reading

Two

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

Drug

More Money

Sex

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

Creativity

Evolution

Possibility

Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don’t know the future, we don’t know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn’t evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.

Decisions We Make

Taught Us

Thinking

I agree with the sentiment that it’s probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren’t so than to not believe something – you know, to believe in a lie.

Believe

Dangerous

Lying

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

Decision

World

In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren’t any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.

Art

Drama

Mean

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

Information

Needs

Order

Librarians are more important than ever before … are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

Data

Encounters

Important

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Quotes by Daniel Levitin

Daniel Levitin

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

I agree with the sentiment that it’s probably more dangerous to believe some things that aren’t so than to not believe something – you know, to believe in a lie.

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

Librarians are more important than ever before … are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

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