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 c…

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

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

- Gyorgy Ligeti

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

- Gyorgy Ligeti