Igor Markevitch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
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.
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.
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'.

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