My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed.
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
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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.
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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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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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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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The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
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The public is always good.
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Truth is a great flirt.
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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
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I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.
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It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.
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Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
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At the end of the competition, I played the Liszt concerto and I felt my head was on the block. Well, I won.
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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
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A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
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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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