"It isn't false modesty when I say this,……" — 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."
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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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