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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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