Accustomed Quote by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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

“My father pretended to be reading his letters. He was a dreadful actor. ‘Since when have you liked Wagner?”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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

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

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

— Gioachino Rossini

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

— Edward Abbey

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

— Richard Wagner

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

“There’s nothing contradictory about appreciating Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen and also getting a kick out of calling Amy Schumer a boring cunt.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos