Author: Franz Liszt

Quotes

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

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

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

Truth is a great flirt.

Truth is a great flirt.

- 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

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 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

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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