Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes
"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Poetry, Literature)
"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Artist)
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Paris)
"Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Music, Want)
"When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Money)
"Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: War, Travel, Years)
"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Mother)
"Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
"Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Man, Word)
"Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: English, Favorite, London)
"I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
"People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Thought, People, Years)
"I don't use old music."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Music, Old)
"I only want to give a metaphysic for my music."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Music, Want)
"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Musicians)
"I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Music, Will, Words)
"I don't read such boring things. Life is too short."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Life)
"Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
"For the past ten years I have had no financial problems."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Financial, Past, Problems, Years)
"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Paris)
"But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: People, Want)
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Music, Old)
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Complexity)
"First of all I listen to music. I like music."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Music, First)
"I like to stay home and listen to recordings."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Home)