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“The moment there is imagination there is myth”
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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.”
Source : "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000. 
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“The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.”
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“I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.”
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“I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.”
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“An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
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“Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.”
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“Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.”
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“America has always been fascinated with the bad guy that's probably why I'm still here. I'm not just living off my bad guy image cuz at the end of the day nobody wants to be bad forever.”
Source : Source: halftimeonline.net
