Song Quotes by Franz Liszt

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like…

— Franz Liszt

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after…

— Franz Liszt

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

— Franz Liszt

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

— Franz Liszt

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

— Franz Liszt

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

— Franz Liszt

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

— Franz Liszt

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again…

— Franz Liszt

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the…

— Franz Liszt

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no…

— Franz Liszt

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in…

— Franz Liszt

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real…

— Franz Liszt

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as…

— Franz Liszt

My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the…

— Franz Liszt

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to…

— Franz Liszt