How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification! — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
...you know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never... — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
