"Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart,……" — Richard Wagner
"Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite."
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Richard Wagner
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40 Quotes by Richard Wagner
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
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...music is the living God in our bosoms.
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In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
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One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination…
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I write music with an exclamation point!
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One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
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The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the…
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We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end…
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I know absolutely nothing about music.
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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
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If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
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