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" 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
I Am
Say
Me
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" 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. "
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" My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. "
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" If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow. "
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" Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. "
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Me
Once
" Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. "
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" Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him. "
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" When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. "
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" I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists. "
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" Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. "
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" I don't use old music. "
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" However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons. "
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Soon
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" There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. "
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Hungarian
Wonderful
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" But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. "
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People
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" For the past ten years I have had no financial problems. "
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Past
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" Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully. "
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Very
Used
" In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity. "
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Much
Piano
Complexity
" I only want to give a metaphysic for my music. "
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Give
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" People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. "
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Thought
He
Lived
" Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him. "
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Him
Something
Me
" In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. "
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Service
January
Labor
" I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. "
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Colleagues
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" Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. "
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Years
Then
" I think a composer is always interested in his last work. "
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Last
Work
Think
" 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. "
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Mind
Physics
Want
" I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided. "
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Words
Will
Music
" First of all I listen to music. I like music. "
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Like
First Of All
First
" New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock. "
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Dream
New
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