Hearing Quote by Gioachino Rossini

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

— Gioachino Rossini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

— Gioachino Rossini

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario…

— Gioachino Rossini

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

— Gioachino Rossini

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

— Gioachino Rossini

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

— Gioachino Rossini

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

— Gioachino Rossini

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

— Gioachino Rossini

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

— Gioachino Rossini

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

— Gioachino Rossini

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

— Gioachino Rossini

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

— Gioachino Rossini