FRANZ LISZT 1811 - 1886

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.

If music has one advantage over the other media through which a person can represent the impressions of the soul, it owes this to its supreme capacity to make each inner impulse audible without the assistance of reason...

Music presents at once the intensity and the expression of feeling. It is the embodied and intelligible essence of feeling, capable of being apprehended by our senses. It permeates them like a dart, like a ray, like a mist, like a spirit, and fills our soul.


Franz Liszt