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

- Gioachino Rossini

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

- 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

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

- Gioachino Rossini

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

- 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 champ…

- 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 tearin…

- 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