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…

- Franz Liszt

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

- Franz Liszt

Truth is a great flirt.

- Franz Liszt

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

- Franz Liszt

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

- Franz Liszt

I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.

- Franz Liszt

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

- Franz Liszt

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are…

- Franz Liszt

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, wee…

- Franz Liszt