49 Quotes by György Ligeti

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

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.

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

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

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

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.