Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

The creative process of composing music has always fascinated me.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

I am the pianist of the duo, although Aleksey does pretty good... you know we've written more and more stuff where he has to play the piano. But you know, to be very honest, I actually went into music because I wanted to be a composer and a conductor. And piano was just one of the ways to get into that.

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it.

I think musically.

I write music visually.

My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.

That is basically me, and although I have done many things in my life - conducting, playing piano, and so on - what is fundamental is my being a composer.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

I wrote my first song at 6. I spent every day with the guitar, and I just made up songs.

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

I've never really been schooled in music theory. I'm a guitar player, and I attack the guitar in a certain way that it not fully unique to me, but it's more unique that some other people.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.