But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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

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.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.