Quotes by 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.
• Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.
• Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
• Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.
• Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.
• Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.