Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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

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

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

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

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I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

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I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

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I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

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

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I don't use old music.

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

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