Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Giuseppe Verdi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini, whose works significantly influenced him.

Italian - Composer | October 10, 1813 - January 27, 1901

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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 my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

Giuseppe Verdi

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

Giuseppe Verdi

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

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 though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.

Giuseppe Verdi

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

Giuseppe Verdi

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

Giuseppe Verdi

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

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 things; it is absurd and stupid

Giuseppe Verdi

Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.

Giuseppe Verdi

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

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

Giuseppe Verdi

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

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 or music.

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

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 joys are too much to bear.

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 knowledge of music.

Giuseppe Verdi

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

Giuseppe Verdi