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

Quote by Franz Liszt

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We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a...

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a...

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character...

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character...

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of...

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of...

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I...

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I...

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

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

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

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a...

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a...

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

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

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every...

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every...

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one...

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one...

The public is always good.

The public is always good.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather...

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather...

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are...

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are...

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

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

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks...

I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks...

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is...

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is...