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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German Composer
Born: May 22, 1813
Died: Feb 13, 1883
Any Me Music Myself Will World
Related authors: Carl Orff Felix Mendelssohn Johann Sebastian Bach Johannes Brahms Karlheinz Stockhausen Ludwig van Beethoven Richard Strauss Robert Schumann
Imagination creates reality. Richard Wagner
Reality Imagination Creates
I write music with an exclamation point! Richard Wagner
Music Point Write Exclamation
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. Richard Wagner
Thought Everywhere Inspired Divine Feel Am Any Currents Vibrating Vibrations Ether Convinced Who Universal
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. Richard Wagner
Hate Joy Will Men Big Machines Tendency Factories Lead Cheap Efforts Them Plan Deprive Products Chain Growing Fast
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
Good Change Good Things Shall Never Know Masses Also Permanent Refuge Anything Transform Place Ask Even Things
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
Music State Completion Out Nerves Brought Both Excited Continually Gnawing Blood Agitation
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go. Richard Wagner
Fish Go Where Wherever
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. Richard Wagner
Abyss Longing Those Fond Am Inferior Them Full Who Beings
I wish I could score everything for horns. Richard Wagner
Wish Everything Horns Could Score
Life is earnest - and always has been. Richard Wagner
Life Earnest Has-Been Always Been
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need. Richard Wagner
Art Myself Me People Enthusiasm Though Member Never Simply Feel Prince Genuine Shelter German Wanderer Native Capital Who Deep Homeless Munich Here Need
Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment. Richard Wagner
World Will Wish Dignified Everything Would Through Shape Fain Reach Greater Tragic According Itself Than Breaking Satisfaction Here Last
How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification! Richard Wagner
Me Become Christian Must Critics Seem Tendency Absurd Him Glorification How Modern Want Ingenious Who Specifically Interpret
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
Myself Strength Distract Enough Constantly Head New Opera Around Them Sketches Extent Here Buzzing Need

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