“I think a composer is always interested in his last work.” — Gyorgy Ligeti Quote

“I think a composer is always interested in his last work.”

“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.”

“In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.”

“The thing I don't want to do as a film composer is reiterate. I prefer to subtextualize or to underline rather than to say, 'This is what you should be feeling.'”

“Conducting is a natural way to participate in one's own music. Almost every 19th-century composer Mendelssohn, Mahler was conducting or playing his own music. Mozart did both.”

“I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.”