Richard Wagner Quotes in Lisztomania (1975)

Richard Wagner: The trouble with your friends, Liszt, is they're all bourgeois pigs.

Liszt: Oh, pigs if you please. But aristocratic pigs, not bourgeois.

Richard Wagner: Is it true that when Liszt was a kid he played Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata at a concert and the composer himself jumped up and kissed him?

Rossini: Certainly Beethoven kissed the boy. By that time he was as deaf as a post.

Richard Wagner: So you're the jid who only makes music on a cash register?

Felix Mendelsohn: Music, shmusic, it's a living, dear boy.

Richard Wagner: You are Robert Schumann?

Strauss: No no no. That's Schumann. I am Strauss.

Richard Wagner: Not Johann Strauss?

Strauss: [annoyed] No! Levi Strauss!