Georges Bizet — French Composer born on October 25, 1838, died on June 03, 1875

Georges Bizet, registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire... (wikipedia)

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.
Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.
What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.
I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.