Richard Wagner Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Richard Wagner:
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
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Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
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I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.
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Imagination creates reality.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
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I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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I wish I could score everything for horns.
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I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
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Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
~Richard Wagner
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Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
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How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
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Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.
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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
~Richard Wagner
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I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.
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Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
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I write music with an exclamation point!
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