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

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.

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

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

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.

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