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Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession. — Georges Bizet

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious work as his required composition. As a self-described atheist, Bizet felt uneasy and hypocritical writing a religious piece. Instead, he submitted a comic opera. Publicly, the committee accepted, acknowledging his musical talent. Privately, the committee conveyed their displeasure. Thus, early in his career, Bizet displayed an independent spirit that would be reflected in innovative ideas in his opera composition.
[The Pearl Fishers - Georges Bizet, Virginia Opera] — Georges Bizet

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

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

Bizet Quotes By Karen DeCrow

When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up. — Karen DeCrow

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

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

Bizet Quotes By Eugene Ormandy

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. — Eugene Ormandy

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

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

Bizet Quotes By Cecilia Bartoli

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. — Cecilia Bartoli

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

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

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

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

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

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

Bizet Quotes By Georges Bizet

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.
[From Bizet, by William Dean. Colier Books, 1962] — Georges Bizet

Bizet Quotes By Friedrich Nietzsche

Yesterday I heard - would you believe it? - Bizet's masterpiece, for the twentieth time. Again I stayed there with tender devotion, again I did not run away. This triumph over my impatience surprises me. How such a work makes one perfect! One becomes a "masterpiece" oneself. - And really, every time I heard Carmen I seemed to myself more of a philosopher, a better philosopher, than I generally consider myself: so patient do I become, so happy, so Indian, so settled ... To sit five hours: the first stage of holiness! - May I say that the tone of Bizet's orchestra is almost the only one I can still endure? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Bizet Quotes By Camille Paglia

The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry. — Camille Paglia