Quotes About Bizet

#1. The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

Cecilia Bartoli

#2. Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

Eugene Ormandy

#3. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

Georges Bizet

#4. When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

Karen DeCrow

#5. As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Georges Bizet

#6. Still holding me close, she whispered into my ear, "But you know what, Soph? Italy is my destiny; it calls to me to return home.

Melissa Muldoon

#7. conversation, an apology for calling the vet at home, and then the hang

Theresa Snyder

#8. What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

Georges Bizet

#9. Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

S. Parkes Cadman

#10. I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.

Colin Farrell

#11. For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

Joe Mantegna

#12. Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Georges Bizet

#13. There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese or wild flowers is a right as inalienable as free speech.

Aldo Leopold

#14. Ramsey made the mistake of guessing it didn't and shook his head, gaining him a scowl and a blasphemy from the cantankerous baron

Julie Garwood

#15. I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Georges Bizet

#16. You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

Bette Davis

#17. I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

Georges Bizet