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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study."
"For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know."
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
"I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused."
"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
"The land which the Society of Jews will have secured by international law must naturally be privately owned."
"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached."
"The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever."
"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers."
"A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances."
"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
"It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities."
"I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary."
"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
"The source of this energy is the sun's radiation."
"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."
"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."
"Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man."
"Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights."
"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."
"But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home."
"Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well."
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