Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.” — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — 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… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite. — 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
