Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

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

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.