Gioachino Rossini

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

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.