Gioachino Rossini
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.Collection: Music
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.Collection: Music
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.Collection: Time
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Life
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.Collection: Funny
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.Collection: Music
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.Collection: Music
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.Collection: Four
Music is a kind of harmonious language.Collection: Language
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.Collection: Men
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.Collection: Musician
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.Collection: Inspiration
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .Collection: Silence