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

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

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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.

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

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