28 Quotes by Hector Berlioz

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 students."[Letter, November 1856]

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.

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

Se dice que el tiempo es un gran maestro; lo malo es que va matando a sus discípulos.

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

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 pupils.