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Gyorgy Ligeti

"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."

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"I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony."

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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."

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

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

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I like to stay home and listen to recordings."

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I only want to give a metaphysic for my music."

Music

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

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided."

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

Musicians

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."

Complexity

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Gyorgy Ligeti
"People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years."

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

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