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I usually start at the end. When you listen to a song for the first time, if there's something you remember from it the next day, that's where I can start writing the song. Whatever the takeaway is, that's the starting point for me.
— Toby GadGrammy-nominated music producer and songwriter behind major pop hits
In improvisation on instruments, I feel creation is going a new path with every note, somewhere you haven't been before. You discover things, you're the adventurer in music. That leads to new songs and nice adventures.
— Toby GadGrammy-nominated music producer and songwriter behind major pop hits
Music is definitely a form of communication, and it gives me a good feeling. If I'm hungry and sit at the piano to play, I'm not hungry anymore. I'll forget everything when I make music. I think when we listen to music, it allows us to feel things.
— Toby GadGrammy-nominated music producer and songwriter behind major pop hits
For a long time there was a kind of cultural chauvinism: the idea that if you just played Mozart to people in the Amazon or to hunter-gatherer groups in the South Pacific, they'd instantly recognize its greatness, maybe even see God. But of course, they don't experience it that way at all.
— Daniel J. LevitinNeuroscientist & author of "This Is Your Brain on Music
Music ties into memory in two ways. First, music itself can be tremendously impactful, so we remember it — and we also remember everything happening around us when we heard it.
— Daniel J. LevitinNeuroscientist & author of "This Is Your Brain on Music
In real life, emotions rarely arrive in neat, isolated packages. They're layered, overlapping, constantly shifting. Pure happiness, for instance, is rare; most of the time it's tinged with something else. And music, more than words, captures that mixture.
— Daniel J. LevitinNeuroscientist & author of "This Is Your Brain on Music
Music is often better than speech at conveying and understanding emotion, because music has a kind of openness and ambiguity to it. Words, on the other hand, tend to put things into boxes.
— Daniel J. LevitinNeuroscientist & author of "This Is Your Brain on Music