Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach,… — Steve Reich Copy Share Image
Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,'… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid,… — Burleigh Grimes Copy Share Image
When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the '80s - that I had Robert Wagner's… — Michael Weatherly 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
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there. — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense. — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
“Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I was at a banquet, and I went into the ladies' room, and I'm in the stall doing my business, and a… — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Wagner festival was [Adolf Hitler] time with the Wagner family. [Eva Braun] asked once to attend but he forbade it and that… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of… — Hans Frank Copy Share Image
What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
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