Achieve Quote by Daniel Barenboim

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

— Stephen Hawking

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

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

— Mark Twain

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

— Gioachino Rossini

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

— Anonymous

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents…

— Andris Nelsons

Everything in Wagner's work - the music, the acting, the staging - stemmed from the text. Everything served to interpret the text.

— Robert Wilson

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

“There were several reasons for the disrepute into which opera fell. Among the first of these was the fact that opera bore the “taint”…

— Aaron Copland

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

— Richard Wagner

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some…

— Anton Seidl