Wagner Quotes - Page 4

• I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

  Franz Liszt

  Littles, Berlioz, Function

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• He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

  John McGraw

  Player, Perfect, Matter

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• In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Heart, Done

  "State of the Unions". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

  Patti LuPone

  Rocks, Stories, Mahler

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• I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

  Ibn Warraq

  Culture, Opera, Should

  Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.13, Encounter Books

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• The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

  Nico Muhly

  People, Yaks, Score

  Interview with Sean Michaels, believermag.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

  I. M. Pei

  Piano Music, Listening, Mahler

  I. M. Pei, Gero von Boehm (2000). “Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key”, Prestel Pub

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• Did Wagner really accomplish the first step towards the kitschy 'fetishization' of music that reaches its apogee in classical Hollywood?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Hollywood, Firsts, Steps

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• Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Writing, Please

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• I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

  Judy Blume

  Love You, Forever, Said

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Mar 18, 2014

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• Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse. Pop is a kind of 'textile genius' who is able to spin, at once, both yarn and rope.

  Ron Miles

  Horse, Cowboy, Yarn

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• When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Baseball, Real, Player

  "Baseball's Greatest Quotes". Book by Paul Dickson, 1991.

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