I Write Bars, For The Musicians, Because

I Lived Under The Nazis And Under The Communists.

I Think It Was When I Was Nineteen, By That Time The Jewish Laws Were Already In Force And The Split Was Beginning To Come About Which Isolated The Jewish Culture.

Once, In London, The Bbc Asked Me What Was My Favorite English Book. I Said Alice In Wonderland

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.

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