Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.”

“However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.”

“Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.”

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

“I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.”

“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.”

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

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

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