The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.