Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
Richard Wagner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
Author
Autobiographer
Composer
Conductor
Diarist
Essayist
Librettist
Music Critic
Musician
Pianist
Poet
Theatrical Director
Writer
Wilhelm Richard Wagner
Wagner
Reincarnation
Petty
Karma
Narrow
Contrast
Seem
Views
Seems
More quotes by Richard Wagner
It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless he doesn't talk at all.
Richard Wagner
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
Richard Wagner
A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
Richard Wagner
Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
Richard Wagner
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.
Richard Wagner
I wish I could score everything for horns.
Richard Wagner
You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
Richard Wagner
I know absolutely nothing about music.
Richard Wagner
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
Richard Wagner
I write music with an exclamation point!
Richard Wagner
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
Richard Wagner
It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.
Richard Wagner
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
Richard Wagner
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
Richard Wagner
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
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.
Richard Wagner
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
For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this never could my poor head have invented such a thing.
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Richard Wagner
