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

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

- 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

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

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 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

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

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

- Franz Liszt

The public is always good.

The public is always good.

- Franz Liszt

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