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Giuseppe Verdi Quotes

«You may have the universe if I may have Italy»
Author: Giuseppe Verdi | Keywords: Italy
«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.»
Author: Giuseppe Verdi | About: Art | Keywords: adore, notes, pounds
«They were all churning out operas of mine. It was clearly impossible for me to work under such conditions, so I hired the organs from their owners. It will cost me about 1,500 lire for the summer, but that is not too large a price to pay for peace.»
«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.»
Author: Giuseppe Verdi | About: Mistakes | Keywords: A-one, interminable, opera, operas, pompous
«In that way I can be quite certain of not making any mistakes,»
«Can you imagine what most conductors would do if I wrote one?»