Top 54 Quotes About Verdi
#1. Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
Charles Rosen
#3. My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.
Rufus Wainwright
#4. I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
Benjamin Britten
#5. It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.
James A. Michener
#6. But what finally ended this cycle was Verdi's Requiem Mass, which he had never heard performed on Earth. The "Dies Irae," roaring with ominous appropriateness through the empty ship, left him completely shattered;
Arthur C. Clarke
#8. She's sweet on Wagner.
I think she'd die for Beethoven.
she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune,
and Verdi's always creeping from her room.
Electric Light Orchestra
#9. The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#10. Verdi was a genius. Sometimes in his operas, the strings in the orchestra, particularly the cellos, play in such a way that it is as if you are hearing the very heartbeat of Verdi.
Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
#11. So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.
Lemony Snicket
#12. I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.
David Suchet
#13. I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.
Rufus Wainwright
#14. I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
Rufus Wainwright
#15. It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.
James Levine
#16. I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani ...
Susan Lucci
#17. Leaping and looping with his little striped friends, verdi laughed and said "I may be big and very green, but I'm still me!
Janell Cannon
#18. Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.
Jonny Greenwood
#19. I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
Giuseppe Verdi
#20. I'd never wanted to punch anyone as badly as I wanted to punch her right in her perfectly little surgically-altered nose.
Jessica Verdi
#21. 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
#22. Why does everything have to suck so bad? Even when you think it's getting better, it's not. Life's building up suckiness, getting ready to hit you again, at the worst possible moment.
Jessica Verdi
#23. Sounds like a pretty miserable existence to me, to have to keep denying who you are every second of your life.
Jessica Verdi
#24. 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
#25. Put to death? I thought God was supposed to be all about forgiveness, not the death penalty.
Jessica Verdi
#26. I felt entirely invisible and uncomfortably obvious all at the same time, sitting there in practically nothing in front of this stranger who was ignoring me.
Jessica Verdi
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
Bob Verdi
#30. Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!
Giuseppe Verdi
#31. 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
#32. If New Horizons is, like Kaylee said, the tool God gave me to create a better life, I'm pretty sure I'm using it wrong.
Jessica Verdi
#33. 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
#34. When is it too late to say it's still early for the Cubs? Try now. Their magic number is 1998, at least until it becomes 1999, but in lieu of a present, they offer you a future.
Bob Verdi
#35. Now I know thinking is not your strong suit, but look on the bright side, at least you'll have this little puzzler to keep you occupied for the next hour or so.
Jessica Verdi
#36. 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
#37. What if the only thing that's standing between us right now is our fear?
Jessica Verdi
#38. I don't know how long it's been since I've been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.
I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I'm not here anymore.
Jessica Verdi
#41. Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
Giuseppe Verdi
#42. Finding someone you can really connect with is like winning the lottery
It happens basically never, but if it does, you really shouldn't blow it.
Jessica Verdi
#43. It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.
Giuseppe Verdi
#46. 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
#47. The activity for the day is Avoiding Satanic Influences
Jessica Verdi
#48. ...this is your life. It's not your mom's. You have to do what makes you happy too
Jessica Verdi
#49. The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi
#50. I checked my phone again one more time before crawling into bed, fully aware that Einstein's definition of insanity was repeating the same action over and expecting different results.
Jessica Verdi
#51. See, that's the problem with getting hit by lightning. You get burned.
Jessica Verdi
#52. 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
#53. If there's anything worth any risk at all, it's got to be love, right?
Jessica Verdi
#54. To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
Giuseppe Verdi
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