Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

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.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

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.

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

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 life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.