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.

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.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.

Awareness precedes choice and choice precedes results.

The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.