Richard Wagner Quotes

It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

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.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...