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

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.

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.

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

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man