26 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 necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.
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It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.
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It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
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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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I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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