Aleksey Igudesman Quotes
Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We just here to do our job.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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I've been very lucky.
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Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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You can't make everybody happy. We just put our head down and went forward. We said, 'This music is bigger than all of us.' That's how we felt. We said, 'You know what? We'll prevail. We'll bet on these songs.'
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The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.
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Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
