Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
“I love you sometimes foolishly and at these moments I do not understand that I could not, would not, and should not be so… — Franz Liszt Copy Share
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my… — Franz Liszt Copy Share
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. — Franz Liszt Copy Share
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. — Franz Liszt Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art… — Franz Liszt Copy Share
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… — Franz Liszt Copy Share
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to… — Franz Liszt Copy Share
Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the… — Franz Liszt Copy Share
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who… — Franz Liszt Copy Share
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. — Franz Liszt Copy Share
