Source: Letters to August Roeckel, Translated by Eleanor C. Sellar
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Famous Richard Wagner Quotes
“The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.”
Source: Religion and Art
“It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.”
Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays
“Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.”
“You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...”
Source: Beethoven
“The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.”
Source: Wagner on Conducting
“It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.”