„I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.“

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— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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„Wagner's music is better than it sounds.“

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— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Actually by Bill Nye, possibly confused due to Nye quoting Twain in More Tramps Abroad, 1897. (See also autobiography, vol. 1, p. 288.)
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„I make music all the time that no-one ever hears. Y' know, I sing in the shower, I hit on things. Music is life - life is music. Of all people, Nietzsche said 'Life without music is an error'. And so I'll be making music one way or another. Oh believe me, I make music.. I've made whole records that no-one heard. Oh they came out, no-one bought them! We used to do whole secret tours, we used to stand outside like 'We're playing tonight!“

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— Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961

and only the bouncers and bartenders would see you. I'm used to it. I'm that tree that falls in the forest.
Clip for Studio4a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6SuvanvZFY&feature=related at youtube.com

„When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.“

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— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

„The late Bill Nye once said "I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds."“

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— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

Quelle: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 288

„A lot of musicians are going to have to retrain. It's nonsense to say that traditional classical music is more complex. Contemporary pieces by Harrison Birtwistle are much harder to play than Mozart or Wagner. I know a lot of people don't want to hear that.“

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— Joanna MacGregor British musician 1959

The Mail on Sunday, 06/02/2000
On Classical Music

„The relation of the performance of music to sound is complex and ambiguous: this is what makes possible Mark Twain's joke that Wagner is better than he sounds.“

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— Charles Rosen American pianist and writer on music 1927 - 2012

Quelle: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist (2002), Ch. 1 Body and Mind

„When translating prose dialogue one ought to make the characters say things that people talking English could conceivably say. One ought to hear them talking, just as a novelist hears his characters talk.“

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— Arthur Waley British academic 1889 - 1966

"Notes on Translation", in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 202, No. 5 (November 1958), p. 109

„Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.“

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— Ludwig Van Beethoven German Romantic composer 1770 - 1827

Conversations (January 1804)

„What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?“

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— Logan Pearsall Smith British American-born writer 1865 - 1946

Age and Death
Afterthoughts (1931)

„Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.“

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— Rebecca West British feminist and author 1892 - 1983

As quoted in The Sunday Telegraph, London (1975), and Rebecca West : A Life (1987) by Victoria Glendinning, p. xi

„Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."

-Elinor Dashwood“

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— Jane Austen, buch Sense and Sensibility

Quelle: Sense and Sensibility

„That's the reason I always say about music, the blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. Without the roots, you have no fruits so it's better keeping the roots alive because it means better fruits from now on.“

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— Willie Dixon American blues musician 1915 - 1992

I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story‎ (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 4.

„Dave would punch or slap people in the face repeatedly when they delivered bad news, or when people talked back with anything other than what he wanted to hear. I would say over a period of five years between 2000 and 2005 I saw him do this maybe 30 to 40 times. I saw him hit Jeff on at least one or two occasions.“

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— David Miscavige leader of the Church of Scientology 1960

Marc Headley referring to incidents involving former Scientology executive, Jeff Hawkins, interviewed in — [Selling Scientology: A Former Scientologist Marketing Guru Turns Against the Church, Matt, Davis, August 7, 2008, http://www.portlandmercury.com/news/selling_scientology/Content?oid=862344, 2010-07-03, The Portland Mercury, Portland, Oregon].
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„She was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."“

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— Max Beerbohm English writer 1872 - 1956

Quelle: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. IX

„In this world, everything has a pulse or a vibration. This sound is unique to each living or non-living thing and in itself creates a music that no-one can hear. I believe that this has a very powerful resonance with, and a deep effect on, our lives. What would happen if we took this further and applied it to bigger things, more powerful things; like an entire solar system or galaxy say, what would that sound like?
Musica Universalis is the ancient theory that every celestial body, the sun, the moon and the stars, has an inner music. This is a harmonic and mathematical concept derived from the movements of the planets in the solar system. The music created is inaudible to the human ear.
Music of the Spheres is my interpretation of this theory. Every planet and every star; the whole universe has music within it that no-one can hear. This is what it would sound like if it was set free. This is Music of the Spheres.“

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— Mike Oldfield English musician, multi-instrumentalist 1953

from the introduction to Music of the Spheres

„Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal -- harmony, dynamics, orchestration -- to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves. That's why there is also something manipulative about Wagner's music, which is not to say that it's not honest. In fact, I believe that it's totally honest, but it also happens to be manipulative.“

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— Daniel Barenboim Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor 1942

SPIEGEL Interview with Daniel Barenboim

„If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.“

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— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Kontext: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

„And silence … is loud! And I'd be straining real hard to hear what those two boys were saying. And finally, just when they figured I had my ear right against the window, one of those ol' boys would turn to the other and say "Did you know that Jesus died for your sins?" And the other one would say "Why no, tell me about it!"“

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— Mike Warnke Evangelical Christian minister 1946

Alive (album) (1975)

„I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself.“

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— Imre Kertész, buch Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)

„I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.“

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— Hans Frank German war criminal 1900 - 1946

To Leon Goldensohn, February 12, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004

„I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.“

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