"It is better to invert reality than to…" — Giuseppe Verdi
"It is better to invert reality than to copy it."
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11 Quotes by Giuseppe Verdi
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The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as…
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Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
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The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my…
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Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our…
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Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along…
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I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and…
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Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.
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A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
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To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
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You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
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