Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.

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

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

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

Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.

I don't use old music.

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

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

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

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

When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'

I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

Make hay while the sun shines.

I don't like being out of the crowd. It's lonely within a group.

Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the geniune within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

The public is always right.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

If I was a girl again I would like to be like my fans I would like to be like Madonna.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.