Bizet Quotes

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Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.
Georges Bizet
L’amour est enfant de Bohême, Il n’a jamais jamais connu de loi. Si tou ne m’aimes pas, je t’aime. Si je t’aime, prends garde à toi!
Georges Bizet
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice . . . . Truth breaks free, science is popularized, and religion totters; soon it will fall, in the course of centuries--that is, tomorrow. . . . In good time we shall only have to deal with reason. [From Bizet, by William Dean. Colier Books, 1962]
Georges Bizet
In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious work as his required composition. As a self-described atheist, Bizet felt uneasy and hypocritical writing a religious piece. Instead, he submitted a comic opera. Publicly, the committee accepted, acknowledging his musical talent. Privately, the committee conveyed their displeasure. Thus, early in his career, Bizet displayed an independent spirit that would be reflected in innovative ideas in his opera composition. [The Pearl Fishers - Georges Bizet, Virginia Opera]
Georges Bizet (The Pearl Fishers: French, English Language Edition, Vocal Score (Kalmus Edition) (French Edition))
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
Georges Bizet
– Assim, nós – dizia ele –, por que nós nos conhecemos? Que acaso o quis? É que através da distância, sem dúvida como dois rios que correm para se unirem, as nossas inclinações particulares nos tinam levado um para o outro E ele tomou sua mão; e ela não a retirou. "Conjunto de boas culturas" – gritou o presidente. – Assim, por exemplo, quando eu fui à sua casa... "Ao Sr. Bizet, de Quincampoix." – Eu sabia que a acompanharia? "Setenta francos!" – Até mesmo cem vezes eu quis partir, e eu a segui, e fiquei. "Estrumes!" – Como eu ficaria esta noite, amanhã, os outros dias, toda a minha vida!
Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
Yesterday I heard—would you believe it?—Bizet's masterpiece, for the twentieth time. Again I stayed there with tender devotion, again I did not run away. This triumph over my impatience surprises me. How such a work makes one perfect! One becomes a "masterpiece" oneself.— And really, every time I heard Carmen I seemed to myself more of a philosopher, a better philosopher, than I generally consider myself: so patient do I become, so happy, so Indian, so settled ... To sit five hours: the first stage of holiness!— May I say that the tone of Bizet's orchestra is almost the only one I can still endure?
Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.
Georges Bizet
– Assim, nós – dizia ele –, por que nós nos conhecemos? Que acaso o quis? É que através da distância, sem dúvida como dois rios que correm para se unirem, as nossas inclinações particulares nos tinam levado um para o outro E ele tomou sua mão; e ela não a retirou. "Conjunto de boas culturas" – gritou o presidente. – Assim, por exemplo, quando eu fui à sua casa... "Ao Sr. Bizet, de Quincampoix." – Eu sabia que a acompanharia? "Setenta francos!" – Até mesmo cem vezes eu quis partir, e eu a segui, e fiquei. "Estrumes!" – Como eu ficaria esta noite, amanhã, os outros dias, toda a minha vida! "Ao Sr. Caron, d'Argueil, uma medalha de ouro!" – Pois nunca encontrei na companhia de alguém um encantamento tão completo. "Ao Sr. Bain, de Givry-Saint-Martin!" – Assim, eu, vou levar a sua lembrança. "Por um carneiro merino..." – Mas você vai me esquecer, eu vou ter passado como uma sombra. "Ao Sr. Belot, de Notre-Dame..." – Oh! Não, não é, eu serei alguma coisa em seu pensamento, em sua vida?
Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
For a full week after trying to reach the editor of The Atlantic, I occupied myself with other things. On October 31 I made some cheerful notes about Tracy Chapman’s singing and about Bizet’s Carmen. On the first of November I wrote at length about my ingrown toenail. But it just wasn’t enough.
Nicholson Baker (U and I)
Carmen.” His eyes gazed into mine for the first time. I took it as a sign of approval at my question. “It was composed by Georges Bizet.
J.S. Cooper (Of Monsters, Men, & Moles (The Marchesi Mafia Family #1))
Il M° Vitaliano Gallo il 5 Agosto 21,15 dirigerà la Banda Cittadina Pasquale Anfossi in piazza T. Chierotti ad Arma Taggia. Programma: K. J. Alford: Colonel Bogey D. Shostakovitch: The Second Waltz A. Mizzi: The King G. Bizet: Carmen P. Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo L. Bernstein: West Side Story M. Dalprà: El Cocorito Paso Doble G. Gershwin: Summertime E. John: The Lions King J. Fucik: Florentiner Marsch Note di sala: “E tanta gente dai portoni cantando sbucò e tanta gente in ogni vicolo si riversò e per la strada quella povera gente marcia felice dietro la sua banda Se c'era uomo che piangeva sorrise perché sembrava proprio che la banda suonasse per lui in ogni cuore la speranza spuntò quando la banda passò cantando cose d'amor La banda suona per noi La banda suona per voi” Chico Buarque de Hollanda “cantando coisas de amor” La canzone vinse il Festival de Música Popular Brasileira del 1966. In Italia fu portata al successo l’anno seguente da Mina nella cover dallo stesso titolo firmata da ‎Antonio Amurri, poi inclusa nell’album “Sabato sera - Studio Uno '67”.‎ Prossimo appuntamento 10 Agosto Molini di Triora
vitaliano gallo
that Georges Bizet had borrowed his tune for L’Arlésienne from a theme by Michel-Richard Delalande,
Anne Sinclair (My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War)
Bizet had effectively used an alto sax in his L’Arlésienne Suite,
Brendan Slocumb (Symphony of Secrets)