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Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
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Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
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Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
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I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.
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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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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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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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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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Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much what meaning does luck still hold for him?
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I know absolutely nothing about music.
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I wish I could score everything for horns.
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Imagination creates reality.
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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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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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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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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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The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
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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.
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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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