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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
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.
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.
You may have the universe if I may have Italy
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.
It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.
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.
Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
It is better to invert reality than to copy it.
Show pity I beg you ...
We have today been struck down by fortune
But tomorrow it may be your own turn to die.
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.
To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.
