Top 34 Quotes by Gyorgy Ligeti

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

I don't use old music.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

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

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

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

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.

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.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.