I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
Hungary has very beautiful folk poetry.
Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
I don't use old music.
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.
People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
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