Greatest Ambition Quotes by Franz Liszt

“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

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

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

— Franz Liszt

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

— Franz Liszt

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

— Franz Liszt

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

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

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

— Franz Liszt

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

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

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

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

— Franz Liszt

Truth is a great flirt.

— Franz Liszt

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

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

— Franz Liszt