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Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith. — 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

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound, — Franz Liszt

By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition — Bedrich Smetana

The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt. — Michael Chabon

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

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

Truth is a great flirt. — Franz Liszt

When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como. — Franz Liszt

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. — Franz Liszt

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. — 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

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house. — Katharine Graham

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. — 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

My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev

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

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. — Franz Liszt

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.

(on Liszt) — Clara Schumann

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. — 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

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

At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won. — Andre Boucourechliev

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. — Franz Liszt

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy. — Franz Liszt

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy. — James Huneker

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. — Franz Liszt