Quotes by : Franz Liszt

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most....

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

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

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

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

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but....

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

Truth is a great flirt.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything....

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without....