Richard Wagner Quotes
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I know nothing at all about music.
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It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
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Imagination creates reality.
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I know absolutely nothing about music.
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What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.
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Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.
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I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.
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From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.
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Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.
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These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.
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I write music with an exclamation point!
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Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
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Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
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We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness
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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
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Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
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It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
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Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.
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The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.
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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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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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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.
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Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.
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Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
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It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.
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