Quotes by Richard Wagner

• I write music with an exclamation point!
• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
• Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
• Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
• Joy is not in things; it is in us.
• Imagination creates reality.
• Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
• I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
• I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
• I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
• Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
• Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
• I wish I could score everything for horns.