The best Quotes by Richard Wagner

The best Quotes by Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 - 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works.

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Hassprediger - Ein demagogischer Blindtest

Ludwig van Beethoven Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Every time I describe a city, I'm saying something about Venice. The images from memory, once fixed in words, are erased. Maybe I'm afraid of losing Venice at once, if I'm talking about it. speaking in other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

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Venice is eternity itself.

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When in Rome, do as Romans do. When you're in Venice, your socks get wet.

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Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

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They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Venice - which is kinda the same.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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Forever yours
Forever mine
Eternally us

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Songs are as sad as the listener.

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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

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"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

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Music is reflection of self

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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