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Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Franz Liszt
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Franz Liszt
Age: 74 †
Born: 1811
Born: October 22
Died: 1886
Died: July 31
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
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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.
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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.
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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
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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.
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
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My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.
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In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
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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.
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