Charles Gounod Quotes

• Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

  Charles Gounod

  Butterfly, Hands, Ideas

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• Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

  Charles Gounod

  Beautiful, Musician, Brilliant

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• If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

  Charles Gounod

  Foundation, Lost, Should

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• ¿Quién ha alcanzado los límites extremos de la escala con la misma precisión infalible, igualmente protegido contra el falso refinamiento de la elegancia artificial y la aspereza de la fuerza espuria? ¿Quién ha sabido insuflar mejor la angustia y el espanto en las formas más puras y exquisitas?

  Charles Gounod

  Limits, Breathe, Elegance

  Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”

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• My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

  Charles Gounod

  Thinking, Weakness, Looks

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• Before Mozart, all ambition turns to despair.

  Charles Gounod

  Ambition, Despair, Turns

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.

  Charles Gounod

  Perfect, Heaven, Grace

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