The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.
Richard WagnerThose who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.
Richard WagnerIf experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.
Richard WagnerTrue drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.
Richard Wagner