Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

• I don’t read such boring things. Life is too short.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Boring, Short, Reading

• When I was younger I was completely without money – when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

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  Topics in Money

  Tags in Studying, Younger

• For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

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  Topics in Past

  Tags in Problems, Financial

• I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lived, Communists

• I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Words, Write

• Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

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  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Influenced

• But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Verses

• I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Give

• Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Find

• In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Piano, Higher, Complexity

• I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Together, Write, Musicians

• Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Wanted

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Travel

• I listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Old, Listen

• If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Come

• But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Go

• I don’t use old music.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Old

• First of all I listen to music. I like music.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Listen

• I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, Listen, Stay

• There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Wonderful, Literature

Gyorgy Ligeti (26)

Birth:	28th May, 1923
Death:	12th June, 2006
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Composer

About

Gyorgy Sandor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important and innovative composers of the second half of the 20th century". Born in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before emigrating and becoming an Austrian citizen.

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