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

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.

Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

The state that has a very, very special place in my heart. I love people of Arizona and together we are going to win the White House in November.

Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

You will find your way. Don't be afraid of getting stuck in some of the necessary compromises. Learn everything you can from each experience, even if something seems irrelevant to your true purpose.