C. Wagner Quotes

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!

One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.

I love hanging out with friends and family.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.

Imagination creates reality.

Having a highly trained obstetrical surgeon attend a normal birth is analogous to having a pediatric surgeon babysit a healthy 2-year-old.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

I write music with an exclamation point!

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I havent mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Something impractical cannot be beautiful.

He was very modest, but once he got talking, he liked reminiscing about all the people he worked with over the years.

If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.