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

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

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

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

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.

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

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.