Giuseppe Verdi quotes
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“You may have the universe if I may have Italy.”
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“To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.”
-- Giuseppe VerdiSource : Giuseppe Verdi, Hans Busch (1988). “Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in letters and documents”, Oxford University Press, USA
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“It is better to invert reality than to copy it.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.”
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“Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.”
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“Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.”
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“A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.”
-- Giuseppe VerdiSource : Giuseppe Verdi (2016). “Messa da Requiem: Critical Edition Study Score”, p.24, University of Chicago Press
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“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”
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