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

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.

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 only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Standing beside you, I took an oathto make your life simpler by complicating mineand what I always thought would happen did:I was lifted up in joy.

In The Newly Evolving World, Everyone Is Part Of The Collective.

No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

Do not always say no. If satisfied with the seat in place and not reckless, the next 20 years you will still sit there alone

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me.

The choices we make when we're broken are sometimes the most awful of all our choices.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.