Gioachino Rossini Quotes
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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.
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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
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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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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.
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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 with the heart.
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Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
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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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One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
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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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