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I know absolutely nothing about music.
Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner
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The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
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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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I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
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Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.
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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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In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
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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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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.
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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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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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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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It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless he doesn't talk at all.
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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 wish I could score everything for horns.
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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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The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.
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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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The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.
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Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
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