"True drama can be conceived only as resulting……" — Richard Wagner
"True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra."
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40 Quotes by Richard Wagner
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...music is the living God in our bosoms.
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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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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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