Franz Liszt

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. ”

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ”

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. ”

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. ”

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words. ”

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ”

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. ”