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

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

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

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.

I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

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