Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

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

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

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

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.