I want to make music. That means I prefer the Steinway piano.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Silence ought also to be the core of each concert. Remember the anagram: listen = silent.

You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

People hate people just cause they want someone different to hate.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master.

What if I never stop inventing?

People are going to talk about you. But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway.

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

You cannot solve a problem by condemning it