56 Quotes by Franz Liszt

My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound,

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

My piano is to me what a ship is to the sailor, what a steed is to the Arab. It is the intimate personal depository of everything that stirred wildly in my brain during the most impassioned days of my youth. It was there that all my wishes, all my dreams, all my joys, and all my sorrows lay.

So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father’s goodness.

I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don’t have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.

Music is the heart of life.” She speaks love; “without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

Sorrowful and great is the artist’s destiny.

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 religion illuminates with His divine light.