Wagner Quotes

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[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

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

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that was that, she never asked again.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.

I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner.

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.

The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.

I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

A good response beats a bad reaction any day. Be encouraged

Stop worshiping the bad in boys and start recognizing the good in men

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged