Giuseppe Verdi:

Copying the truth may be a good thing, but inventing the truth is better, much better.

— Giuseppe Verdi Modern

Opera composer

Letter to Cesare De Sanctis

1855

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"I have no desire for fame, only for peace."

"I have always been a solitary man, and I will die a solitary man."

"I never compose without a bottle of wine and a good cigar."

"It is always better to be a good man than a great composer."

"If I were a young man, I would never compose an opera."