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 …

- Igor Levit

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

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," the…

- Igor Levit

The most unique thing about music making is sharing.

- Igor Levit

I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

- Igor Levit

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

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 …

- Igor Levit

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 i…

- Igor Levit

There are no musically untalented people.

- Igor Levit