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

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.

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

Life, " said Simone St. James..."is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know

You are so much more than I could have ever wished for. ~ Cate Mullen

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

It's hard to answer that from my own perspective because when I'm playing I know where it is coming from and the sources.

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

I'm trying to change the world.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Music education is very important. I think that for me growing up, I was disciplined very hard at home.