Ligeti Quotes

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti. - Alfred Brendel

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. - Gyorgy Ligeti

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

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous. - Esa-Pekka Salonen

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. - Gyorgy Ligeti

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

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully. - Gyorgy Ligeti

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him. - Gyorgy Ligeti

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man. - Gyorgy Ligeti

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. - Gyorgy Ligeti