The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it.

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

No more, ' I told him. 'No more running in the wrong direction... You run to me'.

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

It is impossible to underestimate the significance of your today's choices

I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute.

I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.