Gioachino Rossini Quotes

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• Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
• Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
• How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
• Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
• Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
• The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
• Music is a kind of harmonious language.
• If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
• 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…
• 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…
• One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
• Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
• Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
• Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
• Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

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