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.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini Quotes
One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend to hear it a second time.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
I don’t think you can really appreciate Lohengrin on first hearing. And I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time!
Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.
Answer them (critics) with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
