Author: Franz Liszt

Quotes

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

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

- Franz Liszt

Truth is a great flirt.

Truth is a great flirt.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

- 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.

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

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

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