Georges Bizet famous quotes

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason.
-- Georges Bizet

#Strong #Fall #Ambition

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
-- Georges Bizet

#Inspiring #Writing #Mean

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
-- Georges Bizet

#Beautiful #Art #Beautiful Art

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
-- Georges Bizet

#Love Is #Bird #Rebellious

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.
-- Georges Bizet

#Christian #Religious #Taken

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.
-- Georges Bizet

#Music #Air #Voice

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.
-- Georges Bizet

#Ideas #Pieces #Want

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.
-- Georges Bizet

#Country #Years #Three

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

Turkish-American relations are based on very strong foundations. Currently, we have a war in the region, which could not be prevented, unfortunately. We hope it is a short war ... with minimum casualties.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

When you fall for the one that owns you, she’ll be the only one that has the power to make you cry.

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation