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.
It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better. - Giuseppe Verdi
It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.
- Giuseppe Verdi
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
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.
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi. - Giuseppe Verdi
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
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… - Giuseppe Verdi
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…
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
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.
You may have the universe if I may have Italy. - Giuseppe Verdi
You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
It is better to invert reality than to copy it. - Giuseppe Verdi
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
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
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.
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. - Giuseppe Verdi
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
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