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

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.

Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

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.

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

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