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- "After all, music is not a science. "
- "Also I like very much to play the piano - but for myself. "
- "Auer in German means pasture or meadow, and so it became Ligeti because Ligeti in ..."
- "Because I am pro-capitalist. "
- "But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. "
- "But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris. "
- "But the money is more for the young. "
- "But then, in the last generation, it became common for Hungarian Jews to change their ..."
- "Cezanne is one of my favorites. "
- "First of all I listen to music. I like music. "
- "For the past ten years I have had no financial problems. "
- "Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him. "
- "Hungary has very beautiful folk poetry. "
- "I don't read such boring things. Life is too short. "
- "I don't really use bars. "
- "I don't use old music. "
- "I have always had an interest in picture puzzles, paradoxes of perception and ideas. "
- "I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet ..."
- "I like to stay home and listen to recordings. "
- "I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my ..."
- "I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists. "
- "I only want to give a metaphysic for my music. "
- "I spent my first six years in Dicsoszentmarton, in the heart of Transylvania. "
- "I was very critical of my father's Utopian dreams. I knew would be very worried ..."
- "I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together. "
- "If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow. "
- "In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity. "
- "My father came from Budapest and my mother from Kaposvar. "
- "My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote ..."
- "My father's name was also Auer. "
- "My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a ..."
- "New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock. "
- "Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said ..."
- "People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, ..."
- "Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man. "
- "Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him. "
- "Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully. "
- "The Brahms Second Concerto is four movements, the Prokofiev No.2 is four movements, the Prokofiev ..."
- "Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler ..."
- "There is a great living writer - I know him personally - Sandor Veres. One ..."
- "There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. "
- "There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an ..."
- "They are the most complex of ornaments in the arts, like small sea horses, like ..."
- "When I was six we moved to Kolozsvar, which was always one of the centers ..."
- "When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in ..."
- "Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. "
