#wagner

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. ↗

— Bill Nye

#richard-wagner #music

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

#claws #glass #hung #i #i love

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

— Richard Wagner

#music #musician #richard #sounds #than

Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#chip #club #down #greens #hit

Please write music like Wagner, only louder. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#louder #music #only #please #wagner

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#conductor #find #functions #i #led

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#grew #i #lessons #liking #piano

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

#beautiful #hour #moments #mr #quarters

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. ↗

— Harmony Korine

#film #wagner #art

You know what they say; if you're tired of London, you're tired of life. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#life