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

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

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

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

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

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

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