Bruckner he is my man!

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

— Richard Wagner

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

— Richard Wagner

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

— 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

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

— Richard Wagner

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts -…

— Richard Wagner

What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who…

— Richard Wagner

Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach…

— Richard Wagner

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression…

— Richard Wagner

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the…

— Richard Wagner

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

— Richard Wagner

...you know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...

— Richard Wagner

From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed…

— Richard Wagner

When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally…

— Richard Wagner

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

— Richard Wagner