Hector Berlioz Quotes

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

A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.

I feel grateful to the happy chance which forced me to compose freely and in silence, and has thus delivered me from the tyranny of the fingers, so dangerous to thought.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Le temps est un grand professeur, mais malheureusement il tue ses élèves.

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

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 solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.

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, comme nulle autre pourrait le faire.

The author of The Prophet not only has the good luck to have talent, he has also the talent to have good luck.

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

Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.

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

Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.

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

La chance d'avoir du talent ne suffit pas ; il faut encore le talent d'avoir de la chance.