Best 15 quotes in «wagner quotes» category

Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!

So, he eagerly drove from Basel to Bayreuth before the festival began to watch the last rehearsals of The Ring Cycle. As he watched, it hit him like Odin's bowel movement: the opera was shit.

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.

Tú eres tu propia barrera… sáltala desde adentro.

Um dia sem (Richard) Wagner é um dia desperdiçado.

I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.

they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the very centre of German hopes. But perhaps those same people will find it distasteful to see an aesthetic problem taken so seriously, if they can see art as nothing more than an entertaining irrelevance, an easily dispensable tinkle of bells next to the 'seriousness of life': as if no one was aware what this contrast with the 'seriousness of life' amounted to. Let these serious people know that I am convinced that art is the supreme task and the truly metaphysical activity of this life in the sense of that man, my noble champion on that path, to whom I dedicate this book.

We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

Come into my world. I will show you the phenomenon that Stendhal experienced. I will help you feel the cascading arpeggios of Wagner's overture. I will dance to Doga’s waltzes with you. A day spent without appreciating the beauty surrounding us is a waste. Let me appreciate you

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

Die Meinung des Künstlers über seine Bedürfnisse führt oft zu wirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten. Wagner wünschte, herrlich zu leben. Seine Haut vertrug nur Seide,; er verwarf alle Angebote der Welt, sich mit einem Kleinbürgerdasein zu begnügen, und zog vor, ein Verbrecherdasein zu führen, so lange, bis er dann endlich sein königliches Wirtstier gefunden hatte.

Dorothy's world had become very small-visits to the chapel downstairs, vespers, and Communion, and opera on the radio (including Wagner, whom she refused to let Hitler, or even Wagner himself, ruin for her).