Franz Liszt Quotes
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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
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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.
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I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
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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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As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
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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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Truth is a great flirt.
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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
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The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
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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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Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
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My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.
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My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.
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So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
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I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.
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In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
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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.
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A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
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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.
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Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
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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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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
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The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
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My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.
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