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

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

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

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

However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.