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Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

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

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

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

The public is always good.

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.

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

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

Truth is a great flirt.

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

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

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

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians ... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

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

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

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.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.