When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

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• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

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

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

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

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

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

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

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

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  I don't use old music.

• Gyorgy Ligeti:

  If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.