Franz Liszt Quotes

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
Franz Liszt

Nature, Impossible, Imagine

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
Franz Liszt

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
Franz Liszt

May, Late, Missing

Truth is a great flirt.
Franz Liszt

Great, Truth, Flirt

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

Art, Destiny, Artist

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Franz Liszt

Person, Sense, Ideas

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt

Through, Theatre, Initiative

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
Franz Liszt

Change, Nothing, Try

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
Franz Liszt

Life, Faith, Alone

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

Mother, Children, Her

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

Art, Open, Divine

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

Music, Character, Real

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

Put, Possible, Himself

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Franz Liszt

Before, Written, Mine

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

Stand, Conclude, Further

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

Faith, Work, Heart

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

Find, Others, Works

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
Franz Liszt

Affection, Sacrifices, Sorrowful

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt

Music, Dance, Song

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt

Words, Give, Enough

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

Work, Greatest, After

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

Music, Art, Feeling

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

Great, Destiny, Artist

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

Life, Religion, Great

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, Power, Rather

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Born: October 22, 1811

Died: July 31, 1886

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