Truth is a great flirt.
From Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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.
The public is always good.
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.
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.
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
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