Franz Liszt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”

“Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.”

“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”

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

“Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.”

“It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”