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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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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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You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
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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.
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The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.
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