“For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.” Schumann
“Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” Rossini
"One can't judge Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time." Rossini
"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws." Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.” Rossini
“I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.” Mark Twain
"Na de laatste tonen van de Götterdämmerung voelde ik me alsof ik was vrijgelaten uit een gevangenis. Kan zijn dat de Nibelungen een magnifiek werk is, maar het is zeker dat er nog nooit een werk zo eindeloos en langdradig uitgesponnen is." Tchaikovsky
