"If you come from Paris to Budapest you……" — Gyorgy Ligeti
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
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36 Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti
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Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
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For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
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But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
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But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
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I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
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When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a…
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Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
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Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
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New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock
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Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
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In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
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Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way.…
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We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over…
— Derek Jacobi
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When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish…
— Paul Robeson
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But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a…
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the…
— M. John Harrison
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Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle…
— Michael Flatley
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges…
— Kató Lomb
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Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had…
— Eddie Redmayne
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This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us…
— Theodore von Karman
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I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
— Bela Lugosi
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I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the…
— Cory Monteith
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Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said,…
— Ray Bradbury
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