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Imagination creates reality.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
I know nothing at all about music.
Life is earnest - and always has been.
I know absolutely nothing about music.
I write music with an exclamation point!
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.
...music is the living God in our bosoms.
I wish I could score everything for horns.
Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.
My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.
Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.
The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.
Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.
A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.
The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow
Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.
Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
You know my faithfulness to you, never can another own my heart, never - never - never...
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.
It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
Whatever I thought right, to others seemed wrong; what I held to be bad, others approved of.
I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.
Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.
I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.
We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness
That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.
The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.
The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.
The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.
Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?
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 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.
For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.
Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.
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.