After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?