Gioachino Rossini Quotes & Sayings

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

Music is a kind of harmonious language. — Gioachino Rossini

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God. — Gioachino Rossini

I am writing like an angel — Gioachino Rossini

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity. — Gioachino Rossini

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

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. — Gioachino Rossini

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. — Gioachino Rossini

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

Eh, my dear fellow, order is wealth — Gioachino Rossini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge. — Gioachino Rossini

Tous les genres sont bons,
Hors le genre ennuyeux."
(All genres are good,
Except the boring one. — Gioachino Rossini

Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music. — Gioachino Rossini

If he had been able to, Barbaja would have put me in charge of the kitchen as well' (Rossini on his impresario — Gioachino Rossini

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. — Gioachino Rossini

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

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. — Gioachino Rossini

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

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. — Gioachino Rossini