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.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.

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

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.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Truth is a great flirt.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.