I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the music was Chopin. So my colleagues and I were a little bit allergic to this music because it was everywhere - everywhere!
More Quotes by Krzysztof Penderecki
There is some limit to finding, always, new things. It's rather impossible.
Traveling, talking to people, and rehearsing, I'm always finding new ideas. If I stay in one place, maybe I won't have so many ideas.
After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.
If I would be born in New Zealand, maybe, I would never write the Polish Requiem or pieces which were connected with the history of war. But this was my childhood. War was the main subject, and also in our family.
Our house was in the middle of town; behind it was the ghetto, from which Jews were sent to concentration camps.
Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.