"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."
"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."
57 likes
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Franz Liszt
"Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful."
"In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be."
"I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound."
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
"Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day."