Gioachino Rossini Quotes

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Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Gioachino Rossini
Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like the bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

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Give me the laundress' bill and I will set to music even that.

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It is a music one must hear several times. I am not going again.
Of Tannhäuser

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Music is a kind of harmonious language.

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Dear God, here it is finished, this poor little Mass. Is this sacred music which I have written or music of the devil? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. A little science, a little heart, that's all. Be blessed, then, and admit me to Paradise.

Gioachino Rossini
Wait until the evening before opening night. 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. In my time, all the impresarios in Italy were bald at thirty.

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I take him [Beethoven] twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. You will tell me that Beethoven is a Colossus who often gives you a dig in the ribs, whilst Mozart is always adorable; it is that the latter had the chance of going very young to Italy, at a time when they still sang well.

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Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!

Gioachino Rossini
This little composition, which is, alas, the last mortal sin of my old age.

Gioachino Rossini
Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Gioachino Rossini