I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I'm sure the atmosphere at Tanglewood and the space there and nature - I think it absolutely fits Wagner's music. — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!' — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people. — Nico Muhly Copy Share Image
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball. — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
“She's sweet on Wagner. I think she'd die for Beethoven. she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune, and Verdi's always… — Electric Light Orchestra Copy Share Image
When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it… — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then… — Waite Hoyt Copy Share Image
If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great… — Gabriel Faure Copy Share Image
Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. ‘You have to let me in,’ he says. ‘I wrote Parsifal.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination… — Philippe Aries 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
Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's… — John McGraw Copy Share Image
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than… — Norman Robert Campbell Copy Share Image
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and,… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach… — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They see me all the time at Bayreuth and think I only like Wagner's music, and it's not true. — Joachim Sauer 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
“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.” — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head. — John McGraw Copy Share Image
I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him. — Honus Wagner Copy Share Image
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. — Gioachino Rossini Copy Share Image
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! — Zubin Mehta 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
