Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

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.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

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.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.