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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.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Character Display Emotions Imaginary Instrumental Lets Music Own Real Shine Them Without

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

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Alone Bitter Faith Life Long Only Sacrifice Suicide Transform

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Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Altogether Beware Chances Day Late May Missing Otherwise Some Too Too Late

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Truth is a great flirt.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Flirt Great Truth Truth Is

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The public is always good.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Always Good Public

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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.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Behind Conductor Disappear Evidence Functions Himself His Much Pilots Possible Principal Put Servants Task

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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.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Art Arts Combine Contend Embodies Feeling Forced Forcing Most Music Thought Without Words

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

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Complete Fusion Gypsy Imagine Impossible More Nature Than

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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.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Advantage Improvement More Musician Need Only Performance Plays Rhythm Style Than Who

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I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

~Franz Liszt

Topics: Beethoven Conductor Find Functions Led Like Little Others Wagner Who Windmill Works

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Type: Composer

Born: October 22nd, 1811

Died: July 31st, 1886

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