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I don't use old music. — Gyorgy Ligeti

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

Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere — Gyorgy Lukacs

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. — Gyorgy Ligeti

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons. — Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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

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

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. — Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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

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

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

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

I think a composer is always interested in his last work. — Gyorgy Ligeti

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 Ligeti

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

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

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

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

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals. (1949) — Gyorgy Lukacs

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

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Thus the fundamental form-determining intention of the novel is objectivised as the psychology of the novel's heroes: they are seekers. — Gyorgy Lukacs

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

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

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

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

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

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. — Gyorgy Konrad

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

Kafka was a realist — Gyorgy Lukacs

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

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

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures. — Gyorgy Kepes

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

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

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light. — Gyorgy Kepes

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing. — Gyorgy Kepes