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

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

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

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

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

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

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

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

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

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

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

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

I don’t use old music.

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

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