Quotes Franz Liszt

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is...

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which...

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves...

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether to...

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were writt...

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic r...

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, an...

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in th...

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestm...

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and...

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrif...

In Hungary al native music is divided naturally into melody ...

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided natur...

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in sing...

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with natu...

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a wo...

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can ...

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist....

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and com...

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are ...

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny....

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The s...

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions rad...

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisat...

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in e...