Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

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 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.

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.