Gioachino Rossini quotes
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“Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.”
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“Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.”
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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 RossiniSource : "Composers on Music". Book by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, 1997.
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“If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.”
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“Music is a kind of harmonious language.”
-- Gioachino RossiniSource : "Biografia di Gioachino Rossini". Book by Antonio Zanolini, 1875.
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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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“Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.”
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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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“How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.”
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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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“Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.”
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“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”
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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.”
-- Gioachino Rossini
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