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

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.

What is a Miracle? It is something that was once thought Impossible but became Possible with FAITH.

Loving is half of believing.

Tell me I'm not crazy, " He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.

Financial crises require governments.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.