Gyorgy Ligeti quotes
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“Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully”
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“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 LigetiSource : "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000.
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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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“There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.”
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“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.”
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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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“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 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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“I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.”
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“I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.”
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“I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.”
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“I think a composer is always interested in his last work.”
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“I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.”
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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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“People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.”
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“However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.”
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“I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.”
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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.”
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“For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.”
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“But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.”
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“But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.”
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“I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.”
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“Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man”
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“New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock”
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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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“In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity”
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“There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.”
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“Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.”
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“I like to stay home and listen to recordings.”
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“First of all I listen to music. I like music.”
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“In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.”
-- Gyorgy Ligeti
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