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. -Franz Liszt Music
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. -Franz Liszt Nature
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 Music
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. -Franz Liszt Music
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. -Franz Liszt Alone
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. -Franz Liszt Power
It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. -Franz Liszt Nature
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. -Franz Liszt Religion
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. -Franz Liszt Faith
