1.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Gioachino Rossini
2.
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
3.
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
4.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Gioachino Rossini
5.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
Gioachino Rossini
6.
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
7.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
Gioachino Rossini
8.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Gioachino Rossini
9.
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
Gioachino Rossini
10.
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
Gioachino Rossini
11.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
Gioachino Rossini
12.
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
Gioachino Rossini
13.
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.
Gioachino Rossini
14.
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Gioachino Rossini
