Top 30 Quotes About Rossini: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Rossini

#1. The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

Stendhal

#2. When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

Charles Gounod

#4. After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#5. The (extremely lavish set) was created by a transparency, a fine gauze, finely painted. According to the theatre accounts, it cost 241 ducats, 91 ducats more than Rossini was paid for the music.

Richard Osborne

#6. 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

#7. Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Gioachino Rossini

#9. Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour!

Richard Osborne

#10. It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.

Cecilia Bartoli

#11. Gioacchino Rossini, the composer of William Tell and many other operas, had a good grasp of the relationship between music and food: "What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions." If

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Gioachino Rossini

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

Gioachino Rossini

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

Gioachino Rossini

#15. 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.

Gioachino Rossini