“Wagner was a monster. He was anti-Semitic on Mondays and vegetarian on Tuesdays. On Wednesday he was in favor of annexing Newfoundland, Thursday he wanted to sink Venice and Friday he wanted to blow up the pope.”
Tony Palmer
“Those who claim I hate Jews must explain why I bow to Carl Sagan & Christopher Hitchens. What I hate is incomprehensible greed and what I begrudge is each breath a sociopath takes.”
Bobby W. Miller
“Everytime I hear Wagner I feel like invading Poland.”
Woody Allen
“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 paws”
Charles Baudelaire
“Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
William Howard Taft
“If Bach wriggles, Wagner writhes”
Samuel Butler
“We didn't want to leave our home. I never felt anti-Semitism there or anything like that, but we were living in fear: You would go out and didn't know if you would come home again. So we decided it was worthwhile living a safer life, a quieter life, even though we would have to sacrifice a lot to be here. We came with only our bags, nothing else.”
Damian Nisenson
