Franz Liszt Quotes
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Franz Liszt Quotes & Sayings
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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
— Franz Liszt
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
— Franz Liszt
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
— Franz Liszt
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
— Franz Liszt
Truth is a great flirt.
— Franz Liszt
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
— Franz Liszt
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
— Franz Liszt
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
— Franz Liszt
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
— Franz Liszt
The public is always good.
— Franz Liszt
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
— Franz Liszt
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.
— Franz Liszt
Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger
— Franz Grillparzer
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
— Franz Liszt
When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
— Franz Liszt
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians ... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
— Franz Liszt
Music herself should be silent when Nicholas speaks. (on why he had stopped playing during a performance with Tsar Nicholas I in attendance)
— Franz Liszt
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.
— Franz Liszt
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
— Franz Liszt
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
— Franz Liszt
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
— Franz Liszt
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.
— Franz Liszt
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
— Franz Liszt