Quote: One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . . [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: Music is a kind of harmonious language. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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. [Gioachino Rossini]
Quote: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge. [Gioachino Rossini]