"I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Igor Levit

#Art Quotes #Hierarchy Quotes

“Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.”
“Rock and roll is a contact sport. I enjoy playing the tunes that really get the people going.”
“If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.”
“Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's a good thing, and one of the best arguments for immigration reform, even if you'll rarely hear a politician make it.”

Source : "Immigration Reform and the American Worker". www.newyorker.com. February 21, 2013.
“Quantum physics says that there is an infinite number of possibilities and parallels to the one that we know, and every event is also played out in a parallel world. It's kind of a crazy idea, but someone called Saibal Mitra at the University of Amsterdam says that if you could back up your memory in case of a catastrophic event, you could actually revert to that back-up and find an alternative world in which the Earth didn't explode or collide with Mars.”
“A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.”

Source : Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.244, Pan Macmillan
“I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, than that's their opinion.”
“Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.”

Source : "The Return of the Ultimate Music-Obsessive Comic, Phonogram". Interview with Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com. August 12, 2015.

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