Quotes by Franz Liszt - Page 1

Truth is a great flirt.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Truth
Flirting
Flirty
Truth Is
Flirt
Truth Great Truth Is
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The public is always good.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Good Always
Public
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Artist
Destiny
Sorrowful
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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Art
Inspiring
Artist
Destiny
Grand
Mournful
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I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Affection
Conception
Sacrifice
Sorrowful
Foster
Sacrifices
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You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Children
Imagine
Prodigies
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Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.
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Assured
Musical
Tradition
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A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Cuban Cigars
Doors
World
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Quality
Common
Common Sense
Ideas
Mental
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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Brahms
Composer
Variation
Written
Mine
Variations
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The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Cosmos
Harmony
Spirit
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Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Music
Chance
Late
May
Missing
Too Late
Altogether
Beware
Chances
Too
Day
Otherwise
Some
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I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Heart
Sadness
Sound
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In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Fusion
Gypsy
Impossible
Complete
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My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Space
Ambition
Javelin
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When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Lakes
Two
Writing
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Men
Lacking
Prove
Real
Tests
Worthless
Put
Sadly
Test
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Alone
Faith
Bitter
Long
Sacrifice
Suicide
Only
Transform
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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Firsts
Indispensable
Initiative
Recognition
Theatre
First-Rate
Performance
Receives
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I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Funny
Army
Military
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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Expression
Inspiration
Singing
Song
Tone
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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Companion
Misery
Trying
Avail
Companions
Substantially
Worse
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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Destined
Divided
Hungary
Melody
Native
Song
Origin
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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 / Composer
Ambition
Fervent
Glowing
Wish
Useful
Instructions
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Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Beautiful
Heart
Speak
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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Berlioz
Conductor
Function
Littles
Wagner
Beethoven
Works
Functions
Led
Windmill
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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 / Composer
Gypsy
Improvisation
Spheres
Belongs
Exist
Gypsies
Sphere
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The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Firsts
Musician
Numbers
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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 / Composer
Art
Music
Feelings
Most
Words
Arts
Combine
Contend
Without
Embodies
Feeling
Forced
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I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Needs
Opera
Wells
Conclude
Further
Operas
Repertoire
Services
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In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Found
Gypsy
Hungary
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The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Conductor
Disappear
Evidence
Pilots
Principal
Tasks
Behind
Possible
Functions
Himself
Servants
Task
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We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Advantage
Improvement
Musician
Play
Rhythm
Style
Performance
Plays
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Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Music
Style
Taken
Tents
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As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Children
Gypsy
Mother
Musician
Children Never Mother
Express
Notation
Shown
Teaches
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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 / Composer
Childhood
Church
Fervent
Glowing
Heart
Sprung
Compose
Truly
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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 / Composer
Music
Character
Display
Imaginary
Presuming
Real
Shining
Emotions
Instrumental
Lets
Shine
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So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Air
Father
Taught Us
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As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Artist
Greatness
Tired
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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 / Composer
Art
Assured
Consciousness
Divine
Endeavour
Path
Recognition
Sympathetic
Open
Broad
Paths
Services
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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 / Composer
Assistance
Anyone Else
Perform
Works
Dared
Scanty
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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Art
Christ
Divine
Great Art
Light
Remains
Serenity
Shapes
Supreme
Transitory
Forms
Ideal
Illuminates
Stages
Toward
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My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Inspiration
Mind
Plato
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The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.
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Dwelling
Fever
Peaceful
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My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.
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Dream
Joy
Piano
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For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life.
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Moving
Musical
Passion
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The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.
Franz Liszt / Composer
Foundation
Law
Thrones
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