Quotes from Gioachino Rossini

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

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

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

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

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

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

Against a heart inflamed with love, burning with unquenchable fire, a ruthless tyrant, cruelly armed, wages war, but all in vain. From every attack a victor, Love will always triumph. - Rosina

What a charming little miss! The more I love her, the more she disdains me. - Bartolo

Oh, you alone, my love, can console my heart - Rosina

What on earth is all this love which makes everyone go mad? - Berta

May love and faith eternal reign in both our hearts. - Rosina

Fortune smiles on my love, I can breathe once more. Oh, you alone, my love, can console my heart - Rosina

I feel my heart tremble. - Rosina

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.

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