How absurd these critics must seem to me, who in their modern wantonness have become so ingenious. They want to interpret my Tannhauser as specifically Christian and impute to him a tendency to impotent glorification!
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
