49 Quotes by György Ligeti

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I don't use old music.

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

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

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

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