"However, I began composing as soon as I started taking piano lessons."

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Gyorgy Ligeti

#Piano Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Composing Quotes

“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign”

Source : Speech in House of Commons, 17 May 1628
“Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.”
“To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.”
“Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind”
“Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer”
“I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.”
“I do believe in a God, yes. But that's as far as I want to discuss. If I get too detailed on some things that are personal like that, it gives people an easier way to alienate themselves from me and that's all they are looking for now.”

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