Gyorgy Ligeti Quotes

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

To me, traveling in the United States isn't that much fun. I like to go elsewhere and experience different cultures.

I love traveling around promoting different movies because I'm always looking at different places, and I always walk around to see the city.

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

There was a place I visited in Lahore that felt to me like old Delhi, and I'm sure Pakistanis who come from Lahore to Delhi feel the same.

I'd never really travelled before, and when we started going places, like Japan, France, Germany and all over Europe, it's been interesting to see how different cultures work. But to be there playing music makes it so much better.

I almost felt like I knew London before the first time I went there.

We Americans look funny when we're in France because we don't travel, we are fairly un-cultured whereas Europeans go to Africa all the time because it's right there.

I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.

I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.

In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.

I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.

I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'

I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.

Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

I enjoy travel very much. I've taken the kids to Europe when there were just the two boys.