“If George is around, it will.”
In response to a question posed by Newman Levy, as to whether Gershwin's music would still be played a hundred years hence; as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974), p. 61
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“Instant unconsciousness had been my greatest passion for ten years.”
Oscar Levant buch The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
“I envy people who drink — at least they know what to blame everything on.”
As quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon (1992) by Jon Winokur, p. 88.
As quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 30.
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
“There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
As quoted in Celebrity Register: An Irreverent Compendium of American Quotable Notables (1959) by Cleveland Amory.
“He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.”
On Sigmund Romberg, as quoted in Dancing in the Dark (1974) by Howard Dietz, p. 61
“I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.”
As quoted in Time (5 May 1958).
Oscar Levant buch The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
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
“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.”
As quoted in Jewish Wit (1962) by Theodor Reik, p. 104, also in Inquisition in Eden (1965) and Whatever It Is, I’m Against It (1984) by Nat Shapiro.
