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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

Love hurts, Love will make you cry, Oh your heart still aching, From living a lie.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.