Quotes by Oscar Levant

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.”

“Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember. ”

“Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.”

“Schizophrenia beats dining alone.”

“There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.”

“I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.”

“There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”

“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”

“Epigram: a wisecrack that has played Carnegie Hall.”

“I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.”

“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.”

“Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.”

“It certainly will be if you are still around.”

“Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?”

“It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.”

“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.”

“I would like to have been present, if I could have my choice of all moments in music history, when Stokowski suddenly became conscious of his beautiful hands. That must have been a moment. Like sto...”

“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 ...”

“Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.”