Top 34 Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti

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.

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.

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.

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

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.