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.

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 only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Let your characters lead when you're dancing together.

Only two players made me cry when watching football, one was Diego Maradona and the other Ryan Giggs.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

Aint nobody here think we could get no win but us

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, just to give them my energy and accept theirs.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

I get nervous for everything - literally everything.

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!