Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.”

“I don't use old music.”

“I like to stay home and listen to recordings.”

“I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.”

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

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

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

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

“My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.”

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