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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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Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.
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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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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
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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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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
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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 supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.
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We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
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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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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.
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In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.
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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
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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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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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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.
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