Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Gioachino Rossini

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his popularity.

Italian - Composer | February 29, 1792 - November 13, 1868

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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

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

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Gioachino Rossini

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Gioachino Rossini

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

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

Gioachino Rossini

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

Gioachino Rossini

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

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

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

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

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

Gioachino Rossini