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

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

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.

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

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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

My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.