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Franz Liszt

22 October 1811-31 July 1886

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The Conductor's principal task is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

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Franz Liszt is one who did not compose his work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of his heart, such as he has felt it since his childhood.

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Frederic Chopin is a composer who confided those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

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Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

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The Jew is a monopolizer of money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings.

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The Jew is at the bottom of every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law. The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He

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The Jew is one who has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society.

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Life is simply a matter of deciding whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

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

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Music is the heart of life without which there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

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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.

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Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places,