Quotes by Franz Liszt

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny."
Franz Liszt
"Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful."
Franz Liszt
"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."
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Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period. With a diverse body of work spanning more than six decades, he is...