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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. — Richard Wagner

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

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled. — Richard Wagner

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

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible. — Richard Wagner

Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper. — Richard Wagner

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 — Richard Wagner

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

Music is the living God in our bosoms. — Richard Wagner

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go. — Richard Wagner

That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors. — Richard Wagner

Imagination creates reality. — Richard Wagner

I know nothing at all about music. — Richard Wagner

I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner. — Richard Wagner

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

I wish I could score everything for horns. — Richard Wagner

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters,
in all centuries and in all the arts. — Richard Wagner

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner

Joy is not in things; it is in us — Richard Wagner

You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never ... — Richard Wagner

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church. — Richard Wagner

Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him? — Richard Wagner

The French idea of playing an instrument well is to be able to SING well upon it. — Richard Wagner

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished. — Richard Wagner

Everybody feels oppressed during a Wagner performance. That is part of the appeal. — Richard Taruskin

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! — Zubin Mehta

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. — Richard Wagner

I hate you, Richard Wagner ... but I hate you on my knees. — Leonard Bernstein

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

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

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. — Richard Wagner

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. — Richard Wagner

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

In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow — Richard Wagner

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

I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say. — Richard Wagner

I write music with an exclamation point! — Richard Wagner

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

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

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work. — Richard Wagner

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance. — Richard Wagner

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

I know absolutely nothing about music. — Richard Wagner

But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse. — Richard Wagner

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all. — Richard Wagner

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently. — Richard Wagner

Bruckner he is my man! — Richard Wagner

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious. — Richard Wagner

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound ... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing. — Richard Wagner

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

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

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain

Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of. — Richard Wagner