Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

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  It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for t

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

• Franz Liszt:

  Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is withou

• Franz Liszt:

  In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or m

• Franz Liszt:

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

• Franz Liszt:

  I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conducto

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  I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly

• Franz Liszt:

  I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as

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  Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially a