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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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/through-care-taken-over-trends-the-desire-to-be-novel-and-affectation/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/the-success-of-our-operas-rests-most-of-the-time-in-the-hands-of-the/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/to-copy-the-truth-can-be-a-good-thing-but-to-invent-the-truth-is/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/oh-you-happy-sons-of-the-north-who-have-been-reared-at-the-bosom-of/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [You may have the universe if I may have Italy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/you-may-have-the-universe-if-i-may-have-italy/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/i-order-that-my-funeral-ceremonies-be-extremely-modest-and-that-they/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/i-adore-art-when-i-am-alone-with-my-notes-my-heart-pounds-and-the/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/our-mistake-you-see-was-to-write-interminable-large-operas-which-had/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/of-all-composers-past-and-present-i-am-the-least-learned-i-mean-that/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/through-care-taken-over-trends-the-desire-to-be-novel-and-affectation/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/the-artist-must-yield-himself-to-his-own-inspiration-i-should-compose/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [It is better to invert reality than to copy it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/it-is-better-to-invert-reality-than-to-copy-it/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/stupid-criticism-and-still-more-stupid-praise/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/oh-blessed-a-thousand-times-the-peasant-who-is-born-eats-and-dies/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/it-may-be-a-good-thing-to-copy-reality-but-to-invent-reality-is-much/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

> [A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-verdi/a-man-like-verdi-must-write-like-verdi/)

[Giuseppe Verdi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-verdi/)

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