I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

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

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

I don't use old music.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

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