It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

I don't use old music.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.