Richard Wagner quotes Born: 05/22/1813 Died: 02/12/1882 Country: germany

• Joy is not in things, it is in us. (Richard Wagner) [joy]
• I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved. (Richard Wagner)
• Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. (Richard Wagner)
• I write music with an exclamation point! (Richard Wagner)
• One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality. (Richard Wagner)
• After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? (Richard Wagner)
• I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. (Richard Wagner)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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 wish I could score everything for horns. (Richard Wagner)
• Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. (Richard Wagner)
• Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds. (Richard Wagner)
• Every year I get fantastic deals on restaurant gift certificates and art, while supporting an organization that does great work in our community (Richard Wagner)
• The gourmet food alone is worth the $20 entrance fee. (Richard Wagner)
• We treat a lot of patients who have tans and get skin cancer. We tell them to cut back [on their tanning], but they just can't seem to stop. (Richard Wagner)
• Even people with severely damaged skin say they can't stop, ... The behavior observed was similar to that of smokers. (Richard Wagner)
• Quite a few said they would sit out in the back yard or go to a pool in order to maintain their tan (Richard Wagner)
• Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted. (Richard Wagner)
• Little steps are being taken that may be in the right direction, ... It's the rate of progress I'm concerned about. (Richard Wagner)
• “If you have a better defensive system, the attacker has to work that much harder, recruit more people, put on more shielding, ... The bigger the operation gets, the better chance our people have of detecting and stopping it. (Richard Wagner)
• Dermatologists often talk about people who seem 'addicted' to the sun – people who know it's not good for them to be bronzed all the time, but don't seem able to stop tanning, ... It's interesting that by slightly modifying tools used to identify substance-related disorders, we can see an objective similarity between regular tanning and those disorders. (Richard Wagner)
• This is a new idea, and we didn't know how it would turn out, although there has been mixed evidence from other studies suggesting that tanning increases endorphin production, which could be addictive, ... Certainly this could explain why educational interventions haven't been more successful. (Richard Wagner)
• Dermatologists often talk about people who seem 'addicted' to the sun – people who know it's not good for them to be bronzed all the time, but don't seem able to stop tanning. It's interesting that by slightly modifying tools used to identify substance-related disorders, we can see an objective similarity between regular tanning and those disorders. (Richard Wagner)
• Certainly this (study on addictive nature of tanning) could explain why educational interventions haven't been more successful. (Richard Wagner)
• I believe in the program. I think it's a good thing when producers of any agricultural commodity can get together voluntarily. (Richard Wagner)
• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go. (Richard Wagner)
• You meet people, you make friends. It's a social thing too. You talk to those you are friends with and those who are not as interesting, you go separate ways. It's a lot of fun and we enjoy doing it. We usually have a very good time. (Richard Wagner)
• Then let us sail across the sea, and here and there found a young Germany, let us fructify it with the products of our toil and striving, and let us beget and bring up the noblest and most godlike children: but let us do better than the Spanish, who turned the New World into a papal slaughterhouse, and better than the English, who have turned it into a shop. (Richard Wagner)
• True Drama is only conceivable as proceeding from a common urgency of every art towards the most direct appeal to a common public. In this Drama, each separate art can only bare its utmost secret to their common public through a mutual parleying with the other arts; for the purpose of each separate branch of art can only be fully attained by the reciprocal agreement and co-operation of all the branches in their common message. (Richard Wagner)
• Freshly blows the wind homewards: my Irish child, where are you dwelling? (Richard Wagner)

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