“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.”

“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”

“Truth is a great flirt.”

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

“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”

“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.”

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