Richard Wagner Quotes - Page 3

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• Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Church, Relation

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• Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

  Richard Wagner

  Blessed, Mean, Luck

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• Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

  Richard Wagner

  Musician, Sound, Wagner

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• The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters,
  in all centuries and in all the arts.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Genius, Century

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• Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

  Richard Wagner

  Passion, Musician, Directors

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• 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.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Drama, Discovery

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• That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

  Richard Wagner

  Dog, Pain, Study

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• It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

  Richard Wagner

  Men, Impossible, Hopeless

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• I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

  Richard Wagner

  Writing, Should Have, Wife

  Peter Bassett, Richard Wagner (2008). “Wagner's Parsifal: The Journey of a Soul : Complete German Text with Original Stage Directions”, p.24, Wakefield Press

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• The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

  Richard Wagner

  Art, Drama, Mean

  Richard Wagner (1966). “Prose works”

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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.

  Richard Wagner

  Men, Race, Land

  Richard Wagner (1897). “Religion and Art”, p.227, U of Nebraska Press

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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.

  Richard Wagner

  Crazy, Long, Vision

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• Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

  Richard Wagner

  Government, Program, Increase

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• I know nothing at all about music.

  Richard Wagner

  Knows

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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.

  Richard Wagner

  Song, Other Worlds, Humanity

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