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Georges Bizet
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thumb|right|Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer of the romantic era most famous for his opera Carmen.
Quotes
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.
Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G. (October 1866), as quoted in Letters of Composers: An Anthology, 1603-1945 (1946) edited by Gertrude Norman and Miriam Lubell Shrifte, p. 241
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Starement of 3 August 1867, as quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 115
External links
Category:Composers from France
Category:Pianists from France
Category:Atheists from France
Category:People from Paris
Category:1838 births
Category:1875 deaths