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Franz Liszt Quotes

Hungarian - Composer | October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886

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

Life Faith Alone Sacrifice Suicide

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.

Music Character Shine Emotions Real

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

Day Chance Late Missing Too Late

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.

Style Improvement Performance Need

Truth is a great flirt.

Truth Great Truth Is Flirt

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Art Destiny Artist Grand Mournful

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

Music Dance Song Divided Origin

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

Nature Impossible More Complete Than

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.

Music Power Without Improvisation

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.

Music Art Words Thought Feeling

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Find Others Little Who Like Led

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

Men World Test Prove Real Worthless

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