Gyorgy Ligeti

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

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

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

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.

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

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

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

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.