#music

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#everything #i #kinds #listen #music

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#because #i #i write #musicians #together

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter

Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#i #music #want #yes

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#belongs #exist #gypsies #improvisation #music

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#display #emotions #imaginary #instrumental #lets

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#destined #divided #hungary #into #melody

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#arts #combine #contend #embodies #especially

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#books #ears #figure #fingers #friend