"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters……" — Gioachino Rossini
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
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16 Quotes by Gioachino Rossini
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Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
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Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
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How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
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Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
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The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood…
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Music is a kind of harmonious language.
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If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
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Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the…
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Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they…
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One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second…
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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
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