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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.
Richard Wagner
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Richard Wagner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1813
Born: May 22
Died: 1883
Died: February 13
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A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
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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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It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless he doesn't talk at all.
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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 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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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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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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Imagination creates reality.
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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 whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
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Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
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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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You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
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