Riccardo Muti
I’m not afraid of death. One life is more than enough.
– Riccardo Muti, Interview with Aldo Cazzullo, Corriere della Sera, July 2021 (translated on Gramilano, 14 August 2021)
Themes: death, life, wisdom | Art form: Music
More quotes by Riccardo Muti
- I have spent most of my life trying to understand what Verdi wanted to tell us with his music.
- Toscanini is my idol.
- I don't want applause at my funeral. When it's my turn, I'd like there to be absolute silence.
- These operas are in the hands many times of stage directors who with some exceptions are destroying the opera.
- No one holds the truth, but I have never used Verdi or any other Italian composer for a theatrical or dramatic effect.