I Don't Use Old Music.

People Often Thought Leopold Auer Was Russian Because He Lived In St. Petersburg So Long, Almost Fifty Years.

There Is A Wonderful Hungarian Literature, Especially In Lyric Poetry.

I Know Already The Music I Will Write. But The Words? I Have Not Yet Decided.

Then, After The War It Was Impossible To Travel, After So Many Years Of Hitler And Stalin.

Now There Is No Taboo; Everything Is Allowed. But One Cannot Simply Go Back To Tonality, It’s Not The Way. We Must Find A Way Of Neither Going Back Nor Continuing The Avant-garde. I Am In A Prison: One Wall Is The Avant-garde, The Other Wall Is The Past, And I Want To Escape.