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 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 possible. We are pilots, not servants. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. — 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 me. — 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 the art… — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. — Franz Liszt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
