Gyorgy Legeti Quotes

"Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Wife, Son, Respect, Will)

"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Home, Work, Famous, Modesty)

"In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Deserted, Labor, October, Service)

"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Music, Harmony, Old, Play, Years)

"I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Time, Beginning, Culture, Force, Laws)

"I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Mind, Physics, Study, Want, Years)

"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."
- Gyorgy Legeti
(Related: Work)