Author: Franz Liszt

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

- 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

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

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