Giuseppe Verdi Quotes

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• It is better to invert reality than to copy 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…
• Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
• 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…
• 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;…
• 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…
• 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…
• Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.
• A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
• To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
• You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

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