 First of all I listen to music. I like music. |
| If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow. |
| I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists. |
| I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together. |
| New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock. |
| But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. |
| Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man. |
| People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. |
| I don't use old music. |
| Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin. |
| My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. |
| For the past ten years I have had no financial problems. |
| Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him. |
| I like to stay home and listen to recordings. |
| But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris. |
| There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. |
| Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. |
| I don't read such boring things. Life is too short. |
| When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee. |
| Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. |
