Wagner

   I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

   Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!

—Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

—Goldwyn, Sam(uel) originally  Schmuel Gelbfisz