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

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.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.