Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti - Page 1

I don't use old music.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Old Music
Use
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First of all I listen to music. I like music.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Firsts
Listening To Music
First Of All
Music First Like
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I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Recordings
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I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Giving
Want
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I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Communist
Nazi
Lived
Communists
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Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Music
Fractals
Want
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I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Life
Boring
Boring Things
Life Is Too Short
Too Short
Short
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New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Dream
New York
Rocks
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For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Financial
Financial Problems
Past
Ten
Years
Ten Years
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I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Composer
Lasts
Thinking
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New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Dream World
Jazz
Center
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But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
British
People
Use
Verses
Want
British People
Hungarian
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Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Men
Emotional
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If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Budapest
Moscow
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Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Man I Am Better
Perhaps
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But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Budapest
Moscow
Paris
Thinking
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I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Bars
Musician
Together
Writing
Musicians
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However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Composing
Lessons
Piano
Began
Piano Lessons
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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Literature
Lyric Poetry
Wonderful
Hungarian
Lyric
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In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Complexity
Piano
Polyphony
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In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Complexity
Higher
Concerto
Developed
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I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Decided
Knows
Writing
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Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Me Important Something
Corresponded
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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Artist
Grandfather
Musician
Painter
Decorative
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Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Travel
War
Impossible
Years
So Many Years
Stalin
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I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Colleagues
Kind
New Music
Old Music
Old
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Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Book
London
Wonderland
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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 / Composer
Deserted
January
Labor
October
Forced
Service
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Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
London
Wonderland
Alice
Asked
Bbc
English
Favorite
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Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Mother
Stravinsky
Used
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Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Stravinsky
Beautifully
Goose
Indirectly
Influenced
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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 / Composer
Budapest
Refugee
Study
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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 / Composer
Budapest
Refugee
Younger
Studying
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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 / Composer
Son
Teach
Vienna
Wife
Hamburg
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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Fifty
Long
People
Years
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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 / Composer
Teacher
Musician
Very Famous
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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 / Composer
Famous
Home
False Modesty
Mean
Modesty
Work Home I Am
Although
False
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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 / Composer
Isolated
Jewish Culture
Law
Nineteen
Thinking
Jewish
Split
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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 / Composer
Changed
Composer
Half
Math
Mind
Physics
Study
Years
Half Years
Realized
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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.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Fifteen
Harmony
Play
Prelude
Simple
Years
Studied
Advanced
Bach
Began
Compose
Hardly
Such Things
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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.
Gyorgy Ligeti / Composer
Escaping
Past
Wall
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