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“I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.”

Writing Humans Wish Pleasure Wonder Music Musician Selfish Beast Heavenly Wagner

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.”

Firsts Music Modern Century Strength Hero First Time Combination Purity Adolescence Typical Twentieth Century Spontaneity Modern Times Wagner Physical Strength Joie De Vivre

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“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.”

Trying Literature Music Music Is Cat Window Sticks Glasses Hung Tails Claws Wagner

Book:The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

Source: The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire

“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”

Moments Humor Funny Hours Music Lovely Awful Quarters Wagner

Author:Gioachino Rossini

“I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.”

People Whole Funny Music Hearing Loud Wagner

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”

“I dig Strauss and Wagner, those cats are good...”

Music Cat Wagner

Author:Jimi Hendrix