Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

• 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 Ligeti

  Wall, Past, Escaping

  "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000.

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• Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Mother, Used, Stravinsky

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

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Travel, War, Years

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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.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Math, Years, Mind

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• First of all I listen to music. I like music.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Firsts, Listening To Music

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• Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Music, Want, Fractals

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• I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Giving, Want

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

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Writing, Knows, Decided

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

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Writing, Together, Musician

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• I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Life, Boring, Too Short

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• Tenía quince años y apenas sabía tocar al piano un simple preludio de Bach cuando empecé a componer música, y al nivel más avanzado. Nunca había estudiado cosas como la armonía.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Simple, Years, Play

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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

  Home, Mean, Modesty

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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.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Law, Nineteen

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• But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Paris, Moscow

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• Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Men, Emotional

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• I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Lasts, Composer

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• I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Kind, Colleagues, New Music

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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.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Son, Wife, Vienna

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

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Budapest, Study, Refugee

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• I don't use old music.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Use, Old Music

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

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Book, Wonderland, London

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

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Gente, Usar, Querer

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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.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Teacher, Musician, Very Famous

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• I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Communist, Nazi

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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

  October, January, Labor

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