Quotes from Hector Berlioz

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

He was dying all his life.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [ Letter, November 1856 ]

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

He was dying all his life.

Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.

The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.

imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.

La vie sert à faire des opéras-comiques.

Le temps est un grand professeur, mais malheureusement il tue ses élèves.