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

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

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.