Richard Wagner Quotes

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• Joy is not in things; it is in us.
• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
• ...music is the living God in our bosoms.
• In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
• One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination…
• I write music with an exclamation point!
• One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
• The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
• We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all…
• I know absolutely nothing about music.
• The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
• If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
• Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the…
• Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
• It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
• Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.
• Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
• For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head…
• I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
• When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true…

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