Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

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

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

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

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

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.