One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

Quote by Gioacchino Rossini

Topics: Judgement Quotes

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

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

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

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

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera...

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera...

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have...

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have...

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will...

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will...

You cant always get what you want, but if you keep trying & look hard...

You cant always get what you want, but if you keep trying & look hard...

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a...

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a...

Making music to me is so much more important than being a star. If I...

Making music to me is so much more important than being a star. If I...

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen...

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen...

When the burdens of life seem almost impossible to bear. Just know that your friends...

When the burdens of life seem almost impossible to bear. Just know that your friends...

Life can be like a roller coaster... And just when you think you've had enough,...

Life can be like a roller coaster... And just when you think you've had enough,...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with...

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in...

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in...

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people...

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people...

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still...

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still...

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating...

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating...

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them....

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them....

The meaning of life is that it stops.

The meaning of life is that it stops.