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  • Wagner is the Puccini of music.

    Wagner  
  • Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

    Wagner  
    "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
  • I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

    Wagner  
  • I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.247, Cambridge University Press
  • If Richard 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.

    Art  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

    Wagner  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

    Men  
  • Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

  • I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

    Funny  
    Mark Twain (1924). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  • The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

  • Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

    "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.
  • You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.

  • When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?

  • If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium!

    Wagner  
  • Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.

    "Der Fall Wagner". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.
  • He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

  • Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

    Art  
    Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos
  • I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

    Mahler  
    I. M. Pei, Gero von Boehm (2000). “Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key”, Prestel Pub
  • In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

    Heart  
    "State of the Unions". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.
  • Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

    Opera   Wagner  
    Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert Wagner. People were, like, "How do you imitate Robert Wagner? What does he sound like? What does that even involve?".

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

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

    Culture   Wagner  
    Source: thestagblog.com
  • I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

    Music   Writing  
    Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”
  • yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

    Night  
    Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.116, Canongate Books
  • I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

    Thinking   Opera  
  • I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

    Funny   Music  
    1891 The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.4.
  • I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

    Wagner  
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