Truth is a great flirt.

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

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

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

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.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.