Igor Markevitch quotes

“We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.”
-- Igor Markevitch

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“Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.”
-- Igor Markevitch

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“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”

“Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.”

“If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.”

Source : Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006

“When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

“I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.”

“One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.”

“I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.