Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. Franz Liszt More Quotes by Franz Liszt More Quotes From Franz Liszt My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay. Franz Liszt piano dream joy Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. Franz Liszt speak heart beautiful In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. Franz Liszt verbs The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law. Franz Liszt thrones foundation law My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury. Franz Liszt inspiration plato mind I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound. Franz Liszt sadness sound heart Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. Franz Liszt music missing too-late My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. Franz Liszt javelin space ambition Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. Franz Liszt tests real men The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever. Franz Liszt fever peaceful dwelling For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them speak, weep, sing and sigh, to recreate them in accordance with his own consciousness. In this way he, like the composer, is a creator, for he must have within himself those passions that he wishes to bring so intensely to life. Franz Liszt passion musical moving 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 music feelings art The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit. Franz Liszt harmony cosmos spirit Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. Franz Liszt destiny inspiring art Truth is a great flirt. Franz Liszt flirty flirting truth Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. Franz Liszt sacrifice suicide long 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 shining real character A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. Franz Liszt common-sense quality ideas So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness. Franz Liszt taught-us air father Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal. Franz Liszt style music taken
