Author: Franz Liszt

Quotes

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

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

- Franz Liszt

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

- Franz Liszt

The public is always good.

The public is always good.

- 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 of words.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

- Franz Liszt

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

- 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 exist.

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

- Franz Liszt

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

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

- Franz Liszt

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

- Franz Liszt

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

- Franz Liszt

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