Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

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

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

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

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

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

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.