Richard Wagner Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• I write music with an exclamation point!

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Writing, Exclamation Points

• Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Looks, Opera Singing

• I know absolutely nothing about music.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Absolutely Nothing, Knows

• The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Criticism, Immoral

• What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.

  Richard Wagner

  Music, Cheer, Lying

  Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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