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I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see…

— Werner Herzog

Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as…

— Jonny Greenwood

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets.…

— Aldous Huxley

A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the…

— Maurice Sendak

Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss…

— Dustin Hoffman

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

— Rufus Wainwright

When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top…

— Rufus Wainwright

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even…

— Anonymous

My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for…

— Rufus Wainwright

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary…

— Maurice Sendak

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and…

— James A. Michener

Every spring I hear the thrush singing in the glowing woods he is only passing through. His voice is deep, then he lifts it…

— Mary Oliver

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti,…

— Susan Lucci

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

“Leaping and looping with his little striped friends, verdi laughed and said "I may be big and very green, but I'm still me!”

— Janell Cannon