It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

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

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Truth is a great flirt.

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.