If someone says ‘you must have practised a lot’, it means you played badly
mainFrom a vivacious 90th birthday interview with the irrepressible interview with Ivry Gitlis, who turns 95 today.
Ivry on the music business: ‘You have people with business sense, who treat their artists like potatoes. It’s terrible, and people go along with it. But I see a new generation of younger people who are beginning to play for themselves. That gives me hope.’
Read Ariane’s full interview here.
Required reading
Reminds me of that wonderful scene in Lubitsch’s ‘Ninotchka’ (1939) and the Russian envoy Ninotchka arrives from Moscow at the hotel in Paris to find 3 attractive cigarette girls waiting hand and foot (with giggling) on the 3 Russian envoys….”gentlemen, you must have been smoking a lot”!!!
Loved this “conflict in itself is a great thing if you live it and feel it, and see the contrasts.”