"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."

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Source : "The Audience is Present". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 9, 2015.

Igor Levit

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“The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim.”
“Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.”
“When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Formal education in British India was remarkable for its lack of connection with its Indian environment. Like the African persuaded to cover his nakedness with a Mother Hubbard, we wore mental Mother Hubbards, and they were often a sad fit. Our textbooks had been compiled by Englishmen for English children, of whom there were none in my school and few in any school in India.”

Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”
“I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas. --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007”
“I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.”
“Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.”
“I photograph [people] as if photographing flowers.”

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