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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- 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

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 music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't use old music.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

- Gyorgy Ligeti