Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. 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 pianodreamjoy Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful. Franz Liszt speakheartbeautiful 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 thronesfoundationlaw 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 inspirationplatomind I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound. Franz Liszt sadnesssoundheart Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. Franz Liszt musicmissingtoo-late My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future. Franz Liszt javelinspaceambition Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. Franz Liszt testsrealmen 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 feverpeacefuldwelling 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 passionmusicalmoving 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 musicfeelingsart The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit. Franz Liszt harmonycosmosspirit Truth is a great flirt. Franz Liszt flirtyflirtingtruth Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. Franz Liszt sacrificesuicidelong 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 shiningrealcharacter A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. Franz Liszt common-sensequalityideas 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-usairfather 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 stylemusictaken As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror. Franz Liszt tiredgreatnessartist
