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

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

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.

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

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.