The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
Richard WagnerIf experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
Richard WagnerWhat Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.
Richard Wagner