Author: Franz Liszt

Quotes

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

Truth is a great flirt.

Truth is a great flirt.

- 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

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

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

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

- 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

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

- Franz Liszt

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