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
What this quote means
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.
Themes
MusicLifeBeautyLoveGoodness
In practice
Example use cases
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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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