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.

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

My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

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

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.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

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