But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
From Gyorgy Ligeti
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
I think a composer is always interested in his last work.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
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.
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.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
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