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.

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.

He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him.

Self-education is one of the strongest pillars in the mind of every great person because it is an ongoing process that never ends.

* Thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter doesn’t disappear.* Pay attention to coincidence.* You can choose your identity." And a recent one: Only the present moment matters.

Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.

I think that was probably one of the biggest revelations, is leisure is really in the eyes of the beholder...

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

Many people fear the words Lord and God.

The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.