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

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

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.

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.

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

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

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.