Wagner Quotes - Page 3

• I am honored to have John Lloyd called the Black Wagner. It is a privilege to have been compared with him.

  Honus Wagner

  Black, Privilege, Honored

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• My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

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• When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk," or "total art work." That's what was going on in the 19th century, and the 20th century just kept it going.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Kids, Way

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

  Edward Abbey

  Cutting, Singing, Said

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• Ojalá pudiera escribir libretos el resto de mi vida. Es el más puro de los placeres humanos, un hermafroditismo celestial de ser a la vez escritor y músico. No es de extrañar que esa bestia egoísta de Wagner se lo guardara todo para sí.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Music, Selfish, Writing

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two problems of enduring personal involvement for him, those of Wagner and of Christianity. Der Antichrist , to take one case, is not a response to a resuscitating public interest in Christian religion; it is primarily a renewed attempt to resolve for himself the question of piety.

  John Carroll

  Christian, Two, Return

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• yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Wine, Night

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.116, Canongate Books

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• Crecí tomando clases de piano y me gustaba Wagner cuando estaba en segundo grado.

  Tom Verlaine

  Piano, Lessons, Grew Up

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• Peter Wagner, mi hijo, acaba de ganar el Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Par en los tres últimos hoyos. Un putt, arriba y abajo. Los Wagner no golpeamos greens. Nosotros chip y putt.

  Jack Wagner

  Son, Air, Three

  "Final exam with Jack Wagner". Interview with Brian Murphy, www.golfdigest.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

  Georg Solti

  Nonsense, Specialists, Ifs

  "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.

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• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

  John McGraw

  Baseball, Player, Names

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• Richard Wagner comentando la música de Ludvig Van Beethoven: Era un Titán, luchando con los Dioses.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wrestling, Vans

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• Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner.

  Phil Pringle

  Optimistic, Goal, Growth

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• The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

  John McGraw

  Past, Eight, Feet

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• If Richard Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the 'Great Art Form' would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about.

  Harmony Korine

  Art, Talking, Today

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Mean, Men

  "Degas, Manet, Morisot". Book by Paul Valéry, 1989.

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• No me gustaba Wagner. Mis gustos son más clásicos. Der Fuhrer no tenía gusto musical y le gustaba Wagner por las ampulosas glorias teutónicas.

  Hans Frank

  Musical, Care, Taste

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Nice, Angel

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Years

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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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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• Beethoven, Wagner, Bach y Mozart se dedicaron día tras día a su trabajo. No perdían el tiempo esperando la inspiración.

  Ernest Newman

  Jobs, Inspiration, Hands

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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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• 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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• I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

  Elvis Costello

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

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