Vienna Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— 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

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose…

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti