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

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.

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

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

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