I love Italian opera--it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I l
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Well then! Wagner was a revolutionary--he fled the Germans.... As an artist one has no home in Europe outside Paris: the délicate
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The jazz musician is denied the dignity accorded the composer because not everything he composes is first written down, or, necess
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I have witnessed, and greatly enjoyed, the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so p
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The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral tha
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is co
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Wagner's art is the most sensational self-portrayal and self- critique of German nature that it is possible to conceive.
It is a pregnant complex, gleaming up from the unconscious, of mother-fixation, sexual desire, and fear.
What was it that drove these thousands into the arms of his art--what but the blissfully sensuous, searing, sense-consuming, intox
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He was all for catharsis and purification, he dreamed of an aesthetic consecration that should cleanse society of luxury, the gree
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