Ligeti Quotes
Collection of top 34 famous quotes about Ligeti
Ligeti Quotes & Sayings
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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
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
— 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
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
You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
— Alfred Brendel
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
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
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
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
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
