Robert Lepage Quotes

I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

If people had told me that I would have the stamina to conduct 'Ring Cycles,' I would have been amazed. I still am.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to competition. I write my own music. A lot of the songs, growing up, I was into writing dark stories and poems, and one day I started putting melodies to them.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way into any trilogy I wrote. I was fascinated by the Eddas, the Norse and Icelandic legends, Odin on the world tree.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.