I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

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Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.

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Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

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Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.

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When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

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