Author: Franz Liszt

Quotes

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

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

Truth is a great flirt.

Truth is a great flirt.

- 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

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

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

The public is always good.

The public is always good.

- 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

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

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