27 Quotes by Gioachino Rossini

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

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

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

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

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

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

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

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