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Explore more quotes by Franz Liszt

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."

"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."

"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."
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