 The public is always good. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. |
| Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. |
