Quotes About Wagner

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.

Herzl wrote The Jewish State, his path-breaking manifesto of Zionism, in 1895 under the influence of Wagner, one of the nineteenth century's most notorious anti-Semites.

Kriemhild," she said. "One of the names given to Siegfried's wife in the Norse sagas. I always liked it better than Gutrune, which was the one Wagner used.