Composer Quote by Mark Twain

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

— Richard Wagner

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

— Anonymous

They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

— Edgar Wilson Nye

The late Bill Nye once said, 'I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

— Mark Twain

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

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

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…

— Oscar Wilde

I like Wagner's music much better than anybody's. It's so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing you.

— Bob Marley

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

— Gioachino Rossini

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

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

— Samuel Goldwyn

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

— Stephen Hawking