Top 31 Quotes About Giuseppe Verdi: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Giuseppe Verdi

#1. So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.

#2. 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

Giuseppe Verdi

#3. The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

Giuseppe Verdi

#4. Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

Giuseppe Verdi

#5. 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 or two-act opera without all that pompous nonsense - that was a happy reform.

Giuseppe Verdi

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

Giuseppe Verdi

#7. 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 are too much to bear.

Giuseppe Verdi

#8. Show pity I beg you ...
We have today been struck down by fortune
But tomorrow it may be your own turn to die.

Giuseppe Verdi

#9. All I know is that loneliness is a slow and painful death.' Marion paused.

Arnaldur Indridason

#10. 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

#11. The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Richard Cecil

#12. Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

Debbie Ford

#13. 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 a prima donna.

Giuseppe Verdi

#14. Morning conversations should be between very close friends or lovers, and otherwise avoided entirely.

Gene Doucette

#15. I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Giuseppe Verdi

#16. I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

Giuseppe Verdi

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

Giuseppe Verdi

#18. There's no deodorant like success.

Elizabeth Taylor

#19. I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.

Ferid Murad

#20. My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

John Lasseter

#21. I need to marry Hector

Rae Carson

#22. It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

Giuseppe Verdi

#23. It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

Giuseppe Verdi

#24. Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Giuseppe Verdi

#25. The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met.

Rick Riordan