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

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

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

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.

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

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

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