[Arkansas Toothpick]

Wasn’t it Mark Twain who said that Wagner’s music was better than it sounds?

(Personally, I like Wagner and his extravagant orchestral/choral “music dramas”)

[pissant]

LOL

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Wasn’t it Mark Twain who said that Wagner’s music was better than it sounds?”

I am of the Twain school, I fear ;-)

[Verginius Rufus]

The version I recall is that “Wagner’s music is not as bad as it sounds.” Whether the attribution to Twain is genuine, I don’t know...but it sounds like something he might have said.