Igor Levit Professions : Music master Born : 1987 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Igor Levit The most unique thing about music making is sharing. Igor Levit music-making unique-things unique 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. Igor Levit different sound play There are no musically untalented people. Igor Levit untalented people When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important. Igor Levit collaboration important 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 Levit rubbish musical people 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 Levit two hands people I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting. Igor Levit answering-machines texting machines 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 Levit machines generations school 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 Levit guy stories feels I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else. Igor Levit form art thinking I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial. Igor Levit hierarchy art 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 Levit play mean people 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 Levit silence artist tree Similar Authors Jim Long music-master All Authors
