Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini

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

Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.

Gioachino Rossini
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
Gioachino Rossini

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

Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Rossini

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.