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

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

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

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

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.

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

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.