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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. Franz Liszt Read Quote
Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words. Franz Liszt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
