Franz Liszt Quotes - Famous Quotes by Franz Liszt
Born: 1811-10-22
Died: 1886-07-31
Franz Liszt Biography
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
- Franz Liszt
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Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
- Franz Liszt
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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
- Franz Liszt
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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
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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
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If my early fervor had not been tempered by my good mother and my confessor, it might have well led me to the seminary in 1830 and later on to the priesthood.
- Franz Liszt
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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
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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
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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
- Franz Liszt
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It appears not only that I have become unnecessary to the people of Weimar, but have even become superfluous.
- Franz Liszt
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
- Franz Liszt
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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
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Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.
- Franz Liszt
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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
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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
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The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest our declaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.
- Franz Liszt
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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
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