Top 34 Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti

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

I don't use old music.

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.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

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

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

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

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

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