Quotes
Authors
Ilya Kabakov
"Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union, which did not protect you from the government if the government decided you were the enemy, but it did give you the possibility to work in your profession and survive." --
Source : "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.
Ilya Kabakov
#Party Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Artist Quotes
“I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.”
“For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“'Fast Life' is just about going out with your friends and having a good time - I think it's one of those songs that people can relate with and like.”
“The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed”
“Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.”
“Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music.”
“Until you believe you have options, you'll continue to feel stuck.”
Source : FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from May 07, 2011
“Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it.”
Source : Source: heathenharvest.org