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It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless he doesn't talk at all.
Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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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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You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
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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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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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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 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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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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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
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The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
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