Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
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.
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
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.
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.