Giuseppe Verdi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Travel #May #Universe
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Music #Truth Is #Good Things
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Reality #Invert #Copies
I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Art #Eye #Joy
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Hands #Opera #Tenors
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Inspiration #Artist #Yield
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Mistake #Writing #Two
I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Perfection #Trying #Obligation
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Blessed #Affair #Peasants
Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Stupid #Criticism #Praise
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Writing #Men
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid
-- Giuseppe Verdi

#Art #Stupid #Taken

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