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In Hungary all native music, ...

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

Franz Liszt 73 quotes

The music of the Gypsies belo...

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 73 quotes

Music is never stationary; su...

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

Franz Liszt 73 quotes

We need improvement in the st...

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.

Franz Liszt 73 quotes

My piano is to me what a ship...

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.

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In life one must decide wheth...

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

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A good Cuban cigar closes the...

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

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For the virtuoso, musical wor...

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.

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Life is only a long and bitte...

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

Franz Liszt 73 quotes

Inspiration is enough to give...

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

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My mind and fingers have work...

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

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I find little in the works of...

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

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A person of any mental qualit...

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

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Broad paths are open to every...

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

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Supreme serenity still remain...

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.

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Mournful and yet grand is the...

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

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As the mother teaches her chi...

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.

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Real men are sadly lacking in...

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

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Music embodies feeling withou...

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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Without any assistance whatev...

Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....