"The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies."
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"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm."
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"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
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"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
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"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."
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"The public is always good."
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"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."
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