Gioachino Rossini Quotes

#1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

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#2. Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

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

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#4. Music is a kind of harmonious language.

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#5. I am writing like an angel

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#6. Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument ...

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#7. How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

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#8. Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

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#9. If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

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#10. If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario

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#11. The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

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#12. Eh, my dear fellow, order is wealth

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#13. Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

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

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#15. Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

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#16. Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

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#17. Tous les genres sont bons,
Hors le genre ennuyeux."
(All genres are good,
Except the boring one.

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#18. Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

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#19. Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.

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