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

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

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.

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

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.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.