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.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
New York is the dream world, the center of jazz and rock.