The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

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.

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.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.