Hungarian - Composer | May 28, 1923 - June 12, 2006
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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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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But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
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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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When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
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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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Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
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I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
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