When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

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

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

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

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

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

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.