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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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.Franz Liszt
Truth is a great flirt.
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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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Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
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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 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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