Verdi Quotes
Collection of top 35 famous quotes about Verdi
Verdi Quotes & Sayings
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Put to death? I thought God was supposed to be all about forgiveness, not the death penalty.
— Jessica Verdi
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
— Giuseppe Verdi
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
Oh, you happy sons of the North who have been reared at the bosom of Bach, how I envy you!
— 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
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
— Giuseppe Verdi
What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
— Bob 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
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
So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.
— Lemony Snicket
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
— Giuseppe Verdi
Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.
— Giuseppe Verdi
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
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
After I turn 50, I would like to sing Verdi's 'Attila.'
— Sondra Radvanovsky
Sounds like a pretty miserable existence to me, to have to keep denying who you are every second of your life.
— Jessica Verdi
The activity for the day is Avoiding Satanic Influences
— Jessica Verdi
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
I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
— Rufus Wainwright
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
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
It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.
— 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
I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.
— Giuseppe Verdi
You may have the universe if I may have Italy
— Giuseppe Verdi
You can't pray the gay away.
— Jessica Verdi
