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  • Any chord can follow any chord.
  • Génie oblige! (Genius obliges!)
    • one of Liszt's life-mottos
  • When the Tsar speaks everyone should remain silent.
    • When asked by Nicholas I why he suddenly stopped playing the piano during the final concert of his first Russian tour. Quite a suicidal move in the Russian Empire of the 1840s!
  • "le piano concentre et résume en lui l'art tout entier..."

I removed the quote of Liszt than had a very negative remarks on people who practice judisam. Beside the extremely obscure book, whch I was unable to find, in which the quotation was sourced, as the Wikipedia article for Liszt notes, there is much deliberation on what Liszt wrote in his literary works and its immature to ascribe something of this magnitude to his lips.

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