How long have you guys been playing for?
I've been playing since I was about 8 or 9, I guess - I'm 25 now, so more than 15 years (holy crap!). However for the majority of that I didn't practice nearly as much as I should have - the real love for the piano didn't hit me until about 6 or 7 years ago.
EDIT: and on the subject of Liszt - there are a lot of misconceptions about his work. Certainly, his longer pieces are absolute fiends, but a lot of his short pieces are absolutely beautiful, and much less demanding on the player's technique. Apart from the Consolations (1 and 4 in particular are stunning) he wrote a lot of arrangements and transcriptions of chorales, folk songs, etc. And there's a lot more depth of emotion in his work than he's often given credit for: most people these days, including concert pianists, seem to think that playing Liszt needs to be something spectacular and
fff - not so. When you look at his pieces on the page, the dynamics are often very carefully thought out to provide contrast - for instance, his arrangement of Von Arcadelt's "Ave Maria" has some brilliant contrast between
forte and
piano passages of otherwise identical phrases which really bring out full range of each note. His work is also littered with moments of reflective silence - which even in professional performances are often left out altogether in favour of sustained notes. And in terms of sheer emotional impact, his "Abscheid" (or "Farewell" - I think it's an arrangement of a Russian folk song) is second to none.