If 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
We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.
~ Marcel Proust
Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!
~ Richard Osborne
You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.
~ Idries Shah
