Music Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.”

— Marcel Proust

“Dorothy's world had become very small-visits to the chapel downstairs, vespers, and Communion, and opera on the radio (including Wagner, whom she refused to…

— Kate Hennessy

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic…

— Hans Frank

Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds

— Mark Twain

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that…

— Robertson Davies

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

— Gioachino Rossini

On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it…

— Eberhard Weber

“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 creeping from…

— Electric Light Orchestra

“There were several reasons for the disrepute into which opera fell. Among the first of these was the fact that opera bore the “taint”…

— Aaron Copland

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has…

— George Bernard Shaw

“There’s nothing contradictory about appreciating Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen and also getting a kick out of calling Amy Schumer a boring cunt.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos