Top 28 Quotes by Franz Liszt

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

The public is always good.

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.

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

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.

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

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.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.