49 Quotes by György Ligeti

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

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.

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

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.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

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.