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Georges Bizet
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“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 (1838–1875) first seen 1603 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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!”
Georges Bizet (1838–1875) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Starement of 3 August 1867, as quoted in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 115