But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

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Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

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

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

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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

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In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

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I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

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Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

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

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