On Jul 19, 2024 at 2:53:30 PM EDT, "Zionazi"
Post by ZionaziWagner has beautiful moments, but most of it I don't appreciate...
There was some musician who I can't remember saying
something like Wagner take 20 minutes to get to a point.
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain
"I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so
loud that one can talk the whole time without people
hearing what one says." - Oscar Wilde
"Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarters of an
hour." - Gioachino Rossini
"Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a
disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he
has made music sick." - Friedrich Nietzsche (pre-
falling out era)
"The Ring Cycle is like a marathon where you don't
want the runner to win." - Anon
"The only thing worse than listening to Wagner is
not listening to Wagner." - Anon
"Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds. It is
worse." - Theodor Adorno
"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting
the urge to conquer Poland." - Woody Allen
"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." -
Charles Baudelaire
"There are two golden rules for an orchestra when they
are playing Wagner. Never look at the trombones, it
only encourages them. And if you see a tuba player
smile, hit him." - Anon
"The perfect Wagnerite is a person who can listen to
the Ring cycle and still be able to hear his doorbell." -
George Bernard Shaw
"Wagner is a great composer, but he needs a good editor." -
Gustav Mahler
"One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first
hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second
time." - Gioachino Rossini
"Wagner's music is a bit like a childbirth: It's long,
painful, and at the end, you're glad it's over." -
Anonymous
"Wagner's operas are like German philosophy: Long,
complex, and not always easy to understand." -
Anonymous
"Wagner is the only composer who could make you
believe that love and death are the same thing." -
Anonymous
"Wagner is the only composer who could make you
feel sorry for the gods." - Anonymous
"Wagner's music dramas are like the Bible: Everyone
agrees they're a masterpiece, but no one actually
reads them." - Anonymous
"The first time I heard Tristan, I thought I had
gone mad." - Clara Schumann
"Wagner's operas are the length of three normal
operas, but the story could be told in half an
hour." - Anonymous