Daniel J. LevitinNo one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!
About This Quote
No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend! This quote is used to explain the feeling of being the first person in your family to make it to adulthood. You are celebrating that you are the first member of your family to make it out of childhood alive.
Source: The World In Six Songs: How The Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Some Similar Quotes
- One love, one heart, one destiny.
- We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that...
- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
More Quotes By Daniel J. Levitin
- If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional state he is trying to express. Although the studies haven't been performed yet, I'm willing to bet that when B.B. King...
- It’s usually obvious when you’re talking to somebody a level above you, because they see lots of things instantly when those things take considerable work for you to figure out. These are good people to learn from, because they remember what it’s like to struggle...
- Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
- No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!
- Ambiguity begets participation.