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Franz Liszt (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁants ˈlɪst]; Hungarian: Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc, pronounced [ˈlist ˈfɛrɛnt͡s];[n 1] 22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.

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In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

Gypsy, Hungary, Found, Conserved, Magyar, Jewish

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.

Art, Feeling, Feelings, Music, Thought, Words

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

Theatre, Firsts, Recognition, Initiative, Indispensable

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

Beautiful, Heart, Love, Possible, Speak, Speaks

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.

Chronic, Death, Dwelling, Fever, Peaceful, Perpetual

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.

Musician, Play, Rhythm, Style

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

Ambition, Glowing, Greatest, Instructions, Wish, Work

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.

Children, Express, Gypsy, Mother, Musician, Shown

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.

Bring, Creator, Moving, Musical, Passion

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.

Air, Birds, Complete, Faith, Father, Taught Us

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.

Dream, Dreams, Joy, Piano, Sorrows, Youth

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

Ambition, Composer, Javelin, Sole, Space

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.

Disappear, Functions, Pilots, Possible, Task, Tasks

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.

Character, Emotions, Lets, Radiate, Real, Shining

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

Bitter, Long, Sacrifice, Suicide, Transform

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

Littles, Berlioz, Function, Works, Windmill, Wagner

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

Altogether, Day, Missing, Music, Too Late

Truth is a great flirt.

Flirt, Flirting, Flirty, Truth

A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.

Doors, Cuban Cigars, World, Vulgarities, Good

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

Variation, Composer, Brahms, Variations, Written

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