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

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.

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

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

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.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.