Wagner drives the nail into your head with swinging hammer blows.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen
I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen
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
There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal