Quotes by Hector Berlioz

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]”

“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness ...”

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ...”

“...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.”

“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The ...”

“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.”

“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.”

“The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.”

“He was dying all his life.”

“Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud”

“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness ...”

“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The ...”

“The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.”

“Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

“C'est la vraie voix féminine de l'orchestre, voix passionnée et chaste en même temps, déchirante et douce, qui pleure et crie et se lamente, ou chante et prie et rêve, ou éclate en accents joyeux, ...”

“L'auteur de ce Prophète a non seulement le bonheur d'avoir du talent, mais aussi le talent d'avoir du bonheur.”

“Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.”

“Pauvres diables!... D'où sortent ces malheureux êtres ?... À quel Montfaucon vont-ils mourir ?... Que leur octroie la munificence municipale pour nettoyer (ou salir) ainsi le pavé de Paris ?... À q...”