Top Wagner Quotes
We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
Bernadette Peters
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Richard Wagner
Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
Samuel Goldwyn
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Anton Seidl
Gioachino Rossini 
Samuel Goldwyn 
Bernadette Peters All Wagner Quotes
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Richard Wagner 
62% of people like this quote
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire
57% of people like this quote
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.
Anton Seidl
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One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Gioachino Rossini
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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Gioachino Rossini
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Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
Ernest Newman
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Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
Gioachino Rossini
47% of people like this quote