The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at… — 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