Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
I don't use old music.
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
