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.
Franz LisztRead
Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.
Interpretation
Music profoundly influences our emotions and experiences, shaping the goodness we find in life.
Franz Liszt emphasizes the essential role music plays in enriching human life. He suggests that music is not just an art form, but rather the very essence of existence, providing beauty and love, and making life worthwhile. Without music, he implies, life would lack the joy and goodness that elevates our experiences.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of art in education, I might say, 'As Franz Liszt beautifully put it, music is the heart of life.'
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.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
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.
I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services.
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.
A good Cuban cigar closes the doors to the vulgarities of the world.
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereβs no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.
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