Richard Wagner Quotes

• Wherever the fish are, that’s where we go.

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

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• Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

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• Joy is not in things; it is in us.

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• Imagination creates reality.

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• I write music with an exclamation point!

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• I wish I could score everything for horns.

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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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• I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

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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.

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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.

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• 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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• Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

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Richard Wagner (14)

Birth:	22nd May, 1813
Death:	13th February, 1883
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Composer, Director, Music Conductor

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Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist primarily known for his operas

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