Disease Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

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

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

Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and…

— Daniel Barenboim

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

— Anonymous

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

— Richard Wagner

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

— Gioachino Rossini

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

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

— Mark Twain

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

— Robert Schumann

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

— Bernadette Peters