A Quote by Giuseppe Verdi

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

Giuseppe Verdi

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Giuseppe Verdi
Italian - Composer
October 10, 1813 - January 27, 1901

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

Maurice Sendak

A whole new world of Italian music was springing up, and [Giuseppe] Verdi was seen as old. Boito got Verdi all excited about the possibility of doing another opera, another kind of opera. In fact, Verdi composed his two best operas, Otello and Falstaff, in his eighties.

Maurice Sendak

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

Rufus Wainwright

I'll write three operas - one for Verdi, one for Puccini, and one for Bellini.

Mikis Theodorakis

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

David Suchet

After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.'

Sondra Radvanovsky

I like stuff like Joy Division and Verdi, and then some naff stuff.

Craig Revel Horwood

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

Maurice Sendak

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

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

Charles Rosen

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

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

I'm trying to do the exact thing Verdi or Mendelssohn did - open up that spiritual space where we can all be fully ourselves.

Steven Stucky

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

Werner Herzog

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

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

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