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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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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
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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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You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
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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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One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
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Imagination creates reality.
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If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
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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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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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The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.
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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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The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
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I wish I could score everything for horns.
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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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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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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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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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I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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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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