Truth is a great flirt.

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.

What are those bulb things you're slicing?""You've never seen fennel? It looks like celery and tastes like licorice.

Hopefully one day we will pledge allegiance to the Earth and ALL the people on it.

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

Those who fear men like laws.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.