Early Quote by Andris Nelsons

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

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

— Tom Verlaine

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to…

— Patti LuPone

I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.

— Bob Marley

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one…

— Oscar Wilde

Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop,…

— Andris Nelsons

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

— Anonymous

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

— Slavoj Žižek

Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and…

— Daniel Barenboim

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

— Mark Twain