Italian Quotes

American men are more open, they are readier to express their emotions, but they also get frightened easily. Italians are used to drama. For us, arguing, shouting is perfectly normal - for them it is inconceivable.

The world is a living image of God.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want?

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.