Wagner Quotes

57 quotes by 45 authors

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. — Tom Verlaine
...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting. — Mark Twain
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that… — Mark Twain
The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain
I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here… — Ralph Vaughan Williams
Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Please write music like Wagner, only louder. — Samuel Goldwyn
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball. — Ernie Harwell
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. — Franz Liszt
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. — Ernest Newman
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
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. — Gioachino Rossini
And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once,… — Wallace Shawn
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage… — James Surowiecki
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. — Richard Wagner
I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me.… — Rufus Wainwright
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some… — Colm Toibin
I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland. — Woody Allen
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things… — Philip Larkin
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 says. — Oscar Wilde

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