I feel that all the various features of Nature around…

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

My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

— Charlie Day

“Anything can pass as a Franz Liszt quote if you just mangalica say random Hungarian words in the middle of it. – Franz Liszt”

— 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

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely…

— Stephen Hough

“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

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

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

— Stuart Isacoff

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing…

— Michael Hersch

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

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

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

— Glenn Gould

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

— Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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

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

— Clara Schumann