Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Lisztwas a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philosopher, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth22 October 1811
children imagine prodigies
You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.
father taught-us air
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.
inspiring destiny artist
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
doors cuban-cigars world
A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
funny military army
I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.
suicide sacrifice long
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
flirty flirting truth-is
Truth is a great flirt.
tired greatness men
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.
verbs
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
music art feelings
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.
plato inspiration mind
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.
ambition space javelin
My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.
moving passion musical
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.
heart sadness break-out
I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,