Franz Liszt Quotes

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• Truth is a great flirt.
• I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
• The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question…
• Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
• Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
• Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
• Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
• For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak,…
• So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies…
• I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,
• A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
• You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
• It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
• A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
• In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
• When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
• I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
• Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
• It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
• My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.…

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