As a young composer I had a particular fondness for…

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

— James Huneker

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous…

— Michael Hersch

I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice is. "What…

— David Lang

Argo' was a very exciting project for me because I knew that I could mix together influences from my youth as a young musician…

— Alexandre Desplat

The grapevine in England is an extraordinary thing. When there is a really brilliant young composer or soloist, we all hear about it.

— Simon Rattle

My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.

— Sergei Prokofiev

Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole…

— David Finckel

“One Sunday evening when it was very hot and breathlessly still we sere sitting here in this room in the dusk. He switched on…

— Laird Koenig

“Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,”

— Stuart Isacoff

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

“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child. (on Liszt)”

— Clara Schumann

Before Liszt, a conductor was someone who just facilitated the performance, who would keep people together or beat the time, indicate the entries. After…

— Stephen Hough

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

Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.

— Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould