Axel Rudi Pell - Streets Of Fire

However, he did not belong to himself. He is obliged to provide for his mother, which means that he must at least occasionally, reluctantly give concerts and lessons. “In the same period, I was ill for two years. During this illness, my indomitable desire for faith and self-sacrifice found its end in the strict art of Catholicism. My flaming forehead leaned toward the damp steps of the Sain-Vincent-de-Paul church. My heart was bleeding, my mind was humbled. The feminine image, chaste and pure, like the alabaster of the sacred vessels, was the sacrifice that I made in tears to the Christian God. Renunciation of all earthly things became the only incentive of my life. But such absolute isolation could not last forever. Need - this old mix between man and evil - tore me out of my dedication to contemplation of solitude and often put me in front of the public,on which both my existence and the existence of my mother depended. Young and painfully sensitive, as I was then, I painfully suffered from contact with external circumstances that my profession of a musician entailed and which wounded me especially deeply, because my heart was completely filled with a mystical feeling of love and religion, ”Liszt subsequently wrote .