Richard Wagner quotes

" 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. " # Death and Dying # Action # Love

" I know absolutely nothing about music. " # Music

" Joy is not in things; it is in us. " # Joy

" Joy is not in things, it is in us. " # Joy

" Joy is not in things it is in us. " # Joy

" I write music with an exclamation point " # Music

" I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. " # Music

" The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means. " # Horror # Music # Opera

" Music has taken a bad turn; these young people have no idea how to write a melody, they just give us shavings, which they dress up to look like a lion's mane and shake at us... It's as if they avoid melodies, for fear of having perhaps stolen them from someone else. " # Music # Love # Ideas

" It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour. " # Judaism and Jews # Law and Lawyers # Blame