Music embodies feeling without forcing it to conte... -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.

Franz Liszt , Composer
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Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day....
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....
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....
Truth is a great flirt....
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice....
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 religi...
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist....

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