Gioachino Rossini Quotes

• 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

  Heart, Generations, Common

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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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  Life, Singing, Bottles

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Music

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• How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

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  Funny, Music, Piano

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

  Gioachino Rossini

  Music, Giving, Lists

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• Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Music, Inspiration

  Undated letter translated by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols in "Composers on Music" (1997), p. 67; as quoted in "Gioacchino Rossini" by Luigi Rognoni, (p. 337), 1968.

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• Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.

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  Four, Week

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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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  Time, Judging, Opera

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• Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• Music is a kind of harmonious language.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Language, Kind, Music Is

  "Biografia di Gioachino Rossini". Book by Antonio Zanolini, 1875.

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

  Gioachino Rossini

  Men, Miracle, Prodigies

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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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  Musician, Genius, Amadeus

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• Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

  Gioachino Rossini

  Silence, Answers, Argument

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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.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Inspiration, Hair, Waiting

  "Composers on Music". Book by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, 1997.

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