Gioachino Rossini Quotes

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

“Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.”

— Gioachino Rossini

“Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.”

— Gioachino Rossini

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

— Gioachino Rossini

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

— 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

“How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.”

— 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

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

— Gioachino Rossini

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

— Gioachino Rossini

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

— Gioachino Rossini

“Music is a kind of harmonious language.”

— Gioachino Rossini

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

— Gioachino Rossini

“Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.”

— Gioachino Rossini