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 Copy Share Image
The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better. — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you! — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
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… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
