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

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

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

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

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.