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Explore more quotes by Franz Liszt

"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."

"Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice."

"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."

"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."

"Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing."

"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."

"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."
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