Best 11 quotes of Gioachino Rossini on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

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

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

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