Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

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Gyorgy Ligeti

Profession : Composer

Birth : May 28, 1923

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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

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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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I don't use old music.

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

Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

Gyorgy Ligeti

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

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

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

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I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

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

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

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I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

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But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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