My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

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 don't use old music.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.