Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

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

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

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

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.