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" We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. "
Franz Liszt
Improvement
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" A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. "
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" Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day. "
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" The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants. "
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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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" Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. "
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" A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. "
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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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" 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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" Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Truth is a great flirt. "
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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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