Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Music, Old, Listen

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Paris, Moscow, Budapest

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Gyorgy Ligeti

British, Verses, Hungarian

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Paris, Moscow, Budapest

First of all I listen to music. I like music.
Gyorgy Ligeti

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Past, Problems, Financial

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Important, Him, Wanted

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Life, Boring, Short

I don't use old music.
Gyorgy Ligeti

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Music, Words, Write

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Home, Listen, Stay

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Lived, Communists

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Together, Write, Musicians

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Piano, Higher, Complexity

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Artist, Musician, Painter

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Rock, Dream, York

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Book, Said, Once

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Long, Thought, Often

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Emotional, Word, Yes

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Great, Him, Meet

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Mother, Used, Influenced

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
Gyorgy Ligeti

War, Travel, After

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Poetry, Wonderful, Literature

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Gyorgy Ligeti

Money, Studying, Younger

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Born: May 28, 1923

Died: June 12, 2006

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