Wagner Quotes

57 Wagner quotes by 45 unique authors

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
I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said. — Judy Blume
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down… — Charles Bukowski
Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.… — Chuck Palahniuk
I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good. — Jimi Hendrix
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! — Zubin Mehta
I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half… — Waite Hoyt
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since. — Stephen Hawking
The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an… — Robert Dallek

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