My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist – a painter, a decorative painter. Gyorgy Ligeti Read Quote
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. Gyorgy Ligeti Read Quote
I listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. Gyorgy Ligeti Read Quote
When I was younger I was completely without money – when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. Gyorgy Ligeti Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him. Gyorgy Ligeti Read Quote
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 Read Quote
