Frases de Oscar Levant
Oscar Levant
Data de nascimento: 27. Dezembro 1906
Data de falecimento: 14. Agosto 1972
Oscar Levant foi um pianista, ator, comediante e compositor. Ficou mais famoso por seus personagens mordazes no rádio, televisão e cinema, do que por seu trabalho como músico.
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Citações Oscar Levant
„It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.“
— Oscar Levant
Describing himself, in lines he contributed to An American In Paris (1951), although officially credited to Alan Jay Lerner, as told in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965); also quoted in The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation of British and American Subjects (1978) by Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle, p. 485.
„I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.“
— Oscar Levant
As quoted in Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past (2005) edited by Carol A. Dingle.
„He never asks the orchestra to do anything which contradicts the players' feeling of what the music signifies or what the printed notes of the score actually mean in plain musical language. To his credit he does not pretend to omniscience. When a certain progression of programs with the Philharmonic decreed that he conduct the Brahms Fourth Symphony two seasons ago, he disavowed intensive rehearsals with the simple statement to the orchestra: "Gentlemen, you know the work better than I do." Both the compliment and the attitude endeared themselves so much to the orchestra that they literally forgot themselves in a mass effort to justify his statement—and, as one of those who heard the performance, I can testify that they delivered one of the most powerful and integrated interpretations of the score that New York has experienced in years.“
— Oscar Levant
On conductor George Enescu, in "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939) and A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Lightning Wit Plays On American Musical Scene; Oscar Levant Answers Unspoken Request for 'Information, Please' With Uncensored Comments on Exalted Persons" by Ray C. B. Brown, in The Washington Post (January 14, 1940), p. E4
„Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.“
— Oscar Levant
On President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as quoted in The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Republicans (2006) by Martin Higgins, p. 83.
„It certainly will be if you are still around.“
— Oscar Levant
In response to Gershwin's query, "I wonder if my music will be played a hundred years from now"; as quoted in "George the Ingenuous" by Alexander Woolcott, in Cosmopolitan (November 1933); reprinted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=ATcjgQTx0uIC&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false Ch. IV: "'...A Young Colossus...'"] from Gershwin Remembered (1992) by Edward Jablonski, pp. 44-45
If George is around, it will. (This version was recounted by Howard Dietz in Dancing in the Dark (1974), p. 61, in response to a virtually identical query—i.e. as to whether Gershwin's music would still be played in 100 years—posed by Newman Levy.)
„What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.“
— Oscar Levant
As quoted in On the 8th Day — God Laughed (1995) by Gene Perret, p. 95.
„Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.“
— Oscar Levant
On why his first marriage ended in divorce, in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=rD8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=incompatibility+%22i+think+she+hated+me%22&source=bl&ots=jaka7saxHY&sig=u4HIXFS2YCrP6tV1FRwspSLWO18&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMzIPMzdjRAhVCOyYKHQ_ECrYQ6AEIHzAD#v=onepage&q=incompatibility%20%22i%20think%20she%20hated%20me%22&f=false "Oscar Levant, A Musical Know-It-All, Writes Book About Music And Himself,"] Life (February 5, 1940), p. 55
„A symphonic conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that, regardless of his approach or temperament, the eventual result is the same — the orchestra will hate him.“
— Oscar Levant
In "Music in Aspic," Harper's Magazine (October 1939), an abbreviated chapter from Levant's soon-to-be-published A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); reproduced in [https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22Oscar+Levant%22+intitle:Gentlemen+intitle:scholars+intitle:and+intitle:scoundrels&num=10 Gentlemen, Scholars, and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present] (1959), edited by Harry Knowles, p. 246
„Oscar would have been here at the head table—but he was feeling well.“
— Oscar Levant
Milton Berle, addressing a Friars Club luncheon in 1958, as quoted in "Levant: Deadly With an Epigram" by Ross McLean, in The Toronto Globe and Mail (August 11, 1984), p. D11
„The other night my daughter Lorna reminisced about the time I regressed to complete infantilism. We were having dinner and tapioca pudding was served. A wild glint came into my eyes and in the presence of my wife and children I shrieked at the top of my voice, “I love this more than anything in the world!” I had to be withdrawn from tapioca pudding slowly. It was one of the few times I wasn’t committed to achieve withdrawal.“
— Oscar Levant
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„As a rule I never read bad reviews about myself because my best friends invariably tell me about them.“
— Oscar Levant
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
„A psychiatrist once diagnosed my troubles as “an abdication of will.”“
— Oscar Levant
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
