Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks…

- Georges Bizet

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for wri…

- Georges Bizet

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

- Georges Bizet

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

- Georges Bizet

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

- Georges Bizet

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. I…

- Georges Bizet

I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ide…

- Georges Bizet

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

- Georges Bizet