One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Wagner's music has some wonderful moments but awful half hours.