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

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man

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

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.