Obligation Quote 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…

— Giuseppe Verdi

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

— Giuseppe Verdi

Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!

— Giuseppe Verdi

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Giuseppe Verdi

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

— Giuseppe Verdi

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

— Giuseppe Verdi