I like to stay home and listen to recordings. Gyorgy Ligeti More Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti More Quotes From Gyorgy Ligeti Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape. Gyorgy Ligeti escapingwallpast Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully Gyorgy Ligeti stravinskyusedmother Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. Gyorgy Ligeti waryearstravel I only want to give a metaphysic for my music. Gyorgy Ligeti wantgiving 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. Gyorgy Ligeti mindmathyears But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris. Gyorgy Ligeti moscowparisthinking Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. Gyorgy Ligeti viennawifeson I don't read such boring things. Life is too short. Gyorgy Ligeti boringtoo-shortlife Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man Gyorgy Ligeti emotionalmen 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. Gyorgy Ligeti nineteenlawthinking When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee Gyorgy Ligeti budapestrefugeestudy I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together. Gyorgy Ligeti musiciantogetherwriting Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. Gyorgy Ligeti fractalsmusicwant I think a composer is always interested in his last work. Gyorgy Ligeti composerlaststhinking There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. Gyorgy Ligeti lyric-poetryliteraturewonderful First of all I listen to music. I like music. Gyorgy Ligeti listening-to-musicfirsts I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided. Gyorgy Ligeti decidedknowswriting It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. Gyorgy Ligeti modestyhomemean New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock Gyorgy Ligeti rocksnew-yorkdream Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland Gyorgy Ligeti wonderlandlondonbook
