Crash Quote by 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

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

— Robert Wilson

“Sounds—possibly musical—heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.”

— H. P. Lovecraft

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

— Anonymous

“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. "You have to let me in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal . It…

— Philip K. Dick

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its part, music…

— Thomas Mann

Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

— Slavoj Žižek

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

— Samuel Goldwyn