Richard Wagner Quotes (30 Quotes)

I wish I could score everything for horns.

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

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 - I be

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

Even people with severely damaged skin say they can't stop, ... The behavior observed was similar to that of smokers.

Certainly this (study on addictive nature of tanning) could explain why educational interventions haven't been more successful.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

You meet people, you make friends. It's a social thing too. You talk to those you are friends with and those who are not as interesting, you go separate ways. It's a lot of fun and we enjoy doing it. We usually have a very good time.

The gourmet food alone is worth the 20 entrance fee.

We treat a lot of patients who have tans and get skin cancer. We tell them to cut back on their tanning, but they just can't seem to stop.

Freshly blows the wind homewards my Irish child, where are you dwelling

Imagination creates reality.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

True Drama is only conceivable as proceeding from a common urgency of every art towards the most direct appeal to a common public. In this Drama, each separate art can only bare its utmost secret to their common public through a mutual parleying with the other arts for the purpose of each separate branch of art can only be fully attained by the reciprocal agreement and co-operation of all the branches in their common message.

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

Then let us sail across the sea, and here and there found a young Germany, let us fructify it with the products of our toil and striving, and let us beget and bring up the noblest and most godlike children but let us do better than the Spanish, who turned the New World into a papal slaughterhouse, and better than the English, who have turned it into a shop.

Every year I get fantastic deals on restaurant gift certificates and art, while supporting an organization that does great work in our community,

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.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

I believe in the program. I think it's a good thing when producers of any agricultural commodity can get together voluntarily.

Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

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.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

Dermatologists often talk about people who seem 'addicted' to the sun people who know it's not good for them to be bronzed all the time, but don't seem able to stop tanning, ... It's interesting that by slightly modifying tools used to identify substance-related disorders, we can see an objective similarity between regular tanning and those disorders.