Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes & Sayings
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow. —
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 listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. —
Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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

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