I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

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.

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

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

Truth is a great flirt.

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.