Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony…

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless…

— May Sarton

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

— Cecilia Bartoli

Speaking of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and…

— Camille Paglia

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It…

— Georges Bizet

Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third.…

— Eugene Ormandy

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I know what I know,” she said softly. “But I let go of the fury I had for that boy a long time ago.…

— Sara Shepard

“I love you, too," I whispered so softly I didn't know if he'd heard me. "Ti amo tanto, Sebastian, sempre e per sempre.”

— Jane Harvey-Berrick

Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

— Anonymous

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

— Hilda Conkling

I always thought it would be a simple matter to lie wi' a woman, he said softly. And yet... I want to fall on…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I know,” he said, very softly. “Let’s go home. Let’s go home, and you can tell me whatever you want, and I’ll believe you.”

— Ashlyn Kane

How softly summer shuts, without the creaking of a door.

— Emily Dickinson

Sometimes, I Smile Back To Myself, And, Speaks Softly, Hope Those Day's Would Be Back Again...

— Nikhil Andy