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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.
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Imagination creates reality.
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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
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One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
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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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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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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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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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I write music with an exclamation point!
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The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
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I know absolutely nothing about music.
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The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
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You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
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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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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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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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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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