Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
– Richard Wagner
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.
– Richard Wagner
I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
– Richard Wagner
I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
– Richard Wagner
I write music with an exclamation point!
– Richard Wagner
One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.
– Richard Wagner
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
– Richard Wagner
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.
– Richard Wagner
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.