Author: Richard Wagner

Quotes

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

- Richard Wagner

I write music with an exclamation point!

I write music with an exclamation point!

- Richard Wagner

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

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

- Richard Wagner

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 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.

- Richard Wagner

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

- Richard Wagner

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.

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.

- Richard Wagner

I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

- Richard Wagner

Life is earnest - and always has been.

Life is earnest - and always has been.

- Richard Wagner

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

- Richard Wagner

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