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Wagner Quotes by Mark Twain
- ...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.
- 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…
- The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
- Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds
More Wagner Quotes
- I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and… — Charles Baudelaire
- Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than… — Unknown Author
- To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin… — Adolf Hitler
- 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
- The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach… — Ernest Newman
- As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!' — Edward Abbey
- My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give… — Antonin Dvorak
- They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds. — Edgar Wilson Nye