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

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

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

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.

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

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

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.