Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: May 28, 1923 - June 12, 2006

Topics

MusicSimpleHarmonyPlayNeverOld

I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.

Andie MacDowell

CommitmentWillLandWildlifeMade

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.

Michael Buble

HockeyThinkKindBoyBecomeSinger

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Miriam Toews

WritingAdviceIgnorePageBlood

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LifeGreatHappyHappy LifeFind

No, don't learn at karate schools. They overcharge you for karate uniforms. They make you pay, like, fifty or seventy-five bucks just for a karate uniform, and you don't wear a uniform in everyday life, so why train in one? Most fights take place outdoors, not inside with perfect lighting and mats.

Judah Friedlander

LifeOutdoorsLearnYouPerfectWhy

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Joseph Brodsky

ChangeSoulManBelievePolitical

Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life.

DeRay Mckesson

LifeLoveYouInformationPlace

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Annette Funicello

LifeMickey MouseMy LifeFameCall

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Pete du Pont

AgePeopleThoughtPoliticalRight

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

Sean Connery

AmericaRememberBeenWouldMany

I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.

Thomas Heatherwick

BusinessPassionYouSayOrderUsed

Living with Tourette's is not easy.

Tim Howard

EasyLiving

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