Oscar is our Liszt and Bill Evans is our Chopin,

Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their…

— Frederic Chopin

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

— Glenn Gould

Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists… Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no…

— Richard Clayderman

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

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

— Charlie Day

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

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

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

— Clara Schumann

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

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

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

“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

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