Quotes & Sayings About Rossini

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight. — Stendhal

The terms that Sforza Cesarini offered Rossini, 400 Roman Scudi, were not ungenerous, though it must have been galling for Rossini to see the Figaro, Luigi Zamboni, getting almost twice as much, and the Almaviva, Manuel Garcia, being offered three times the amount. Of the first-night cast, only the 'altro buffo', Bartolomeo Botticelli, who played Bartolo, and the 'seconda donna', Elisabetta Lowselet, who played Berta, were paid less than the composer. — Richard Osborne

Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television. — Luciano Berio

On the Overture of the Rossini opera "Il SIgnor Bruschino" - The sound of the second violins striking the backs of their bows against the metal candle holders shortly after the start of the overture was judged 'incomprehensible' by the Giornale. Rossini feared as much. 'Dio ti salvi l'anima' (God save your soul), he wrote on the manuscript at the end of the overture). — Richard Osborne

When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta. — Haruki Murakami

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

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is a kind of harmonious language. — Gioachino Rossini

It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic. — Cecilia Bartoli

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

I am writing like an angel — Gioachino Rossini

In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini's, creative failures, suicides, and unanticipated deaths have been common in the middle to late 30s. As Charles Rosen has noted, 'It is the age when the most fluent composer begins to lose the ease of inspiration he once possessed, when even Mozart had to make sketches and to revise'. — Richard Osborne

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

Here in the Rue Rossini, there comes to Slothrop the best feeling dusk in a foreign city can bring: just where the sky's light balances the electric lamplight in the street, just before the first star, some promise of events without cause, surprises, a direction at right angles to every direction his life has been able to find up till now. — Thomas Pynchon

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

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

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

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

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

The greater your trust, the greater your spiritual growth. — Connie Rossini

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

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity. — 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

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

Wagner thought Rossini unserious; Rossini thought Wagner 'lacked sun'. Wagner also became the butt of a phrase Rossini had used down the years to describe musicians about whom he had certain reservations - "He has some beautiful moments but some bad quarters of an hour! — Richard Osborne

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

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say. — Charles Gounod

The (extremely lavish set) was created by a transparency, a fine gauze, finely painted. According to the theatre accounts, it cost 241 ducats, 91 ducats more than Rossini was paid for the music. — Richard Osborne

Gioacchino Rossini, the composer of William Tell and many other operas, had a good grasp of the relationship between music and food: "What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions." If — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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