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1 " Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know... "
― Richard Wagner , The Ring of the Nibelung
2 " Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem to have come”, and the all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: “You see, my son, time turns here into space "
― Richard Wagner
3 " Imagination creates reality. "
4 " Alles ist nach seiner Art:an ihr wirst du nichts ändern "
5 " I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner. "
6 " Joy is not in things; it is in us "
7 " I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved. "
8 " Joy is not in things; it is in us. "
9 " Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them. "
10 " One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. "
11 " The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice. "
12 " Bruckner he is my man! "
13 " The French idea of playing an instrument well is to be able to SING well upon it. "
― Richard Wagner , Wagner on Conducting
14 " But then such a book as this is not meant to amuse. "
― Richard Wagner , Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1
15 " Unicamente los hombres fuertes conocen el amor, solamente el amor incluye la belleza, solamente la belleza produce el arte. El amor de los débiles entre sí no puede producir sino la satisfacción de sus apetencias lujuriosas. "
16 " Der Gesang ist die in höchster Leidenschaft erregte Rede: die Musik ist die Sprache der Leidenschaft. "
17 " What was infinitely more valuable to Wagner, and what excited his gratitude to even more superlative utterance, was the confidence which Liszt showed in his genius, and without which, it is no exaggeration to say, Wagner’s greatest works would probably have remained unwritten. "
18 " ΠΑΡΣΙΦΑΛ: «Μόλις και μετά βίας βαδίζω, κι όμως νιώθω πως ήδη έχω πάει πολύ μακριά!»ΓΚΟΥΡΝΕΜΑΝΤΣ: «Βλέπεις, γιε μου, σ’ αυτό εδώ το μέρος ο χρόνος γίνεται χώρος!»("Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit") "
19 " Ist der Mensch, der nach dem Gott sich sehnt, nicht vernichtet? "
20 " [...] he played me the Fourth Prelude and Fugue (C-sharp minor). Now, I knew what to expect from Liszt at the pianoforte; but from Bach himself, much as I had studied him, I never expected what I learnt that day. For then I saw the difference between study and revelation; through his rendering of this single fugue Liszt revealed the whole of Bach to me, so that I now know of a surety where I am with him, can take his every bearing from this point, and conquer all perplexity and every doubt by power of strong faith. "
