Witold LutosÅ‚awski quotes

Witold LutosÅ‚awski quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.”
-- Witold LutosÅ‚awski

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“I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!”
-- Witold LutosÅ‚awski

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“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”
“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”
“The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.”
“I get depressed at airports.”
“I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.”
“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”
“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

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