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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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