Richard Wagner

You are not only a musician of lofty heights, but a human being who could brook ruthless showers of criticism, unlike most other human beings.

> I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

> — Mark Twain

> Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches — he has made music sick....Wagner's art is diseased.

> — Friedrich Nietzsche

> Happily for Wagner, he is endowed with a temper so insolent that criticism cannot touch his heart-even admitting that he has heart, which I doubt.

> — Georges Bizet

From:Sri Chinmoy,Music: ecstasy's heart-hunger, Agni Press, 1994
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