Igor Levit quotes
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“The most unique thing about music making is sharing.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.”
-- Igor LevitSource : "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.
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“Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“You never know what you're going to share. I can play, I know what is written - the marks, the things the composer tells me to do - and I do it, but it will still sound different each day.”
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“There are no musically untalented people.”
-- Igor LevitSource : "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.
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“I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.”
-- Igor LevitSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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