Hungarian - Composer | October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886
A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
Franz Liszt
QualityIdeasCommon SensePerson
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
GreatDestinyArtistSorrowful
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.
PrincipalPossibleTaskEvidence
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
WorkMeAmbitionWishLeaveUseful
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.
WorkFaithHeartChildhoodChurch
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
ChangeNothingTryMiseryUsWorse
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
AffectionMakeSorrowfulFoster
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.
MotherChildrenLanguageNeverNeed
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.
WorkSchoolAskWhateverWithout
The public is always good.
GoodAlwaysPublic
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.
LifeGreatArtLightReligionStill
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
WordsSingingSongEnoughWithout
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