Giuseppe Verdi Professions : ComposerBorn : October 10, 1813Died : January 27, 1901 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Giuseppe Verdi 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 eyejoyart You may have the universe if I may have Italy. Giuseppe Verdi individualismmaytravel I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try. Giuseppe Verdi obligationperfectiontrying To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better. Giuseppe Verdi truth-iscreativitymusic It is better to invert reality than to copy it. Giuseppe Verdi invertcopiesreality It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better. Giuseppe Verdi good-thingsmayreality The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him. Giuseppe Verdi yieldfeel-betterartist Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise. Giuseppe Verdi criticismstupidpraise 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 tenorsoperahands Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music. Giuseppe Verdi composermeanpast 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 yieldartistinspiration Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. Giuseppe Verdi affairsolitudeblessed Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you! Giuseppe Verdi bosomsenvyson 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 takenstupidart A man like Verdi must write like Verdi. Giuseppe Verdi verdiwritingmen 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 mistakewritingtwo I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music. Giuseppe Verdi funeralsongorder I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss. Giuseppe Verdi denysingerssaid Similar Authors Igor Stravinsky composer Irving Berlin composer Brian Ferneyhough composer Bryce Dessner composer Bradley Joseph composer Boudleaux Bryant composerAll Authors
