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

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.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

It's so hard not to smile.

Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light

Good looks should never become a part of your internal character.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers