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Fabrizio De André
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“I will wait tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and maybe another hundred years until Mrs Liberty and Miss Anarchy are considered by the majority of my fellow human beings as the best possible form of civil coexistence, not forgetting that in Europe, even in the mid-18th century, republican institutions were considered utopian. And remembering with pride and regret the happy and all too brief libertarian experience of Kronstadt, an episode of brotherhood and egalitarianism suddenly bombarded by Mr Trotsky. (p. 157)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About marginalisation) It removes you from power and therefore from the mud. It brings you closer to God's point of view. (p. 159)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From what little I know, a language declines to the level of a dialect (or a dialect rises to the dignity of a language) solely for historical and political reasons and not for reasons intrinsic to the language itself. This Italian, this Florentine dialect that started out as vernacular, has become a lofty, prudish, bourgeois and bigoted language, through which not even all the terms in the vocabulary can be expressed: if you say “fica”, you'll be thrown out of the hotel. In Genoa, anyone who says “mussa” and “belín” causes no scandal. If you say it in Italian, all hell breaks loose. (p. 39)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genoa played a fundamental role. Because Genoa is a hypercritical city. If you don't make people laugh or cry, you'd better stop doing those jobs. It's a very strict city and in this sense I find it very similar to Sardinia. (p. 43)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a navigator leaves the quay of the port of the city where he lives, the moment of detachment from security and certainty arrives, perhaps in the form of a wife, guardian of the marriage bed, waving a light, tear-stained handkerchief from the shore, the detachment from the little garden, from the lemon tree and, if the sailor leaves from Genoa, certainly from the pot of basil planted there on the balcony, to whet the appetite of the others, those who remain, the deserters of the sea. (p. 78)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To paraphrase Flaubert, we can say that while the Almighty gave Genoa the sun and the sea, he left the Milanese with rain so that they would have something to talk about, then he changed his mind and gave them fog too, so that even today they have two topics of conversation. Yet, amid this sun and this very blue (so to speak) sea, terrible tragedies have occurred, including the relatively recent sinking of the London Valour. (p. 80)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Milan, everyone walks like mice, using very small spaces in a very short time; in Tempio, the exact opposite happens: we all walk with long strides and few worries; the spaces are still enormous and the time it takes to complete many projects can even be considered “geological time”. Genoa, from this point of view, represents an enviable middle ground. (p. 131)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genoa is to Milan as Italy is roughly to Germany. Cold-blooded populations have always done everything they can to come and piss their winter fogs into our seas. (p. 132)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genoa was a training ground where I practised living and, thanks also to the neighbouring cultures, thinking, writing and playing music. (p. 135)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'And on your buried Genoa | not a handful of earth but | a cascade of dry leaves | with the face of Marx. | In your solitude full of faces | of children and soldiers | have you ever wondered | why challenge the sea?”' (p. 136)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Regardless of the game and the result, I would hardly say that the match has all the characteristics of the old class struggle: a proletarian Genoa against a plutocratic and highly decorated Milan. (p. 212)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Genoese seems to be a language created for songs, just as Hebrew is a language of prophecies. (p. 234)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the people who create problems who do not change.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the so-called “best” among us had the courage to underestimate themselves at least a little, we would live in an infinitely better world.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Real questions and real answers are not made up of words: they are made up of actions, gestures, deeds, works in which words can also be compressed. Yet everything we do comes at a price in terms of anxiety, failure and, if all goes well, nostalgia.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is much more difficult to be understood when doing good than when doing evil.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The left must not give the elderly a “past”, but a future.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Capitalism cannot be democratic.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anarchism is possible in a new system of needs, finally freed from necessity. Unfortunately, necessities still exist.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The social discomfort of people suits those who extort consensus: people who are uncomfortable, without work, without money, are easily influenced and are very easy sources of consensus (including electoral consensus).”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Interviewer: Does money attract you, Mr De André? De André: Yes, it is I who have never managed to attract it.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What will I do with the money from this record? I don't know whether to spend it on having my face lifted to look younger, or to use it to give myself time to write something serious, to look older.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“History is written by the victors.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: English proverb (english)
“No history of peace has ever been written.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why has there never been a writer as Minister of Culture?”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Television is like history: there are those who make it and those who suffer it.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I wonder if we who sing along with the audience are not just a “club” of romantic young ladies playing “handball” within the walls of a pomegranate garden while outside people are tearing each other apart.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't ask a songwriter what he thought or felt before writing a song: it's precisely because he doesn't want to tell you that he started writing. The answer is in the song.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do I write? Out of fear. For fear that the memory of the lives of the people I write about will be lost. For fear that the memory of me will be lost. Or even just to be protected by a story, to slip into a story and no longer be recognisable, controllable, blackmailable.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music is not symbolic. Music represents itself. It is a protomental phenomenon, it anticipates reason. It evokes, but not symbolically.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no radical contradiction in transforming a poem into sung music. If anything, there is a formal need to vulgarise that poem, in the sense of modifying its lexicon by interpolating it with vulgar language, which can reach the feelings and reason of a wider audience. All this with the help of the magic of music, which remains the only universal language I know.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Artists, damn it! I understand the poor integrated intellectual: he is someone who reads between the lines and understands what is going on much better than others. I understand that if he is not an artist, if he cannot transform what he understands into something else that comes across even better, he has to integrate: the artist is an antibody that society creates against power. If artists integrate, we're screwed!”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The heart of the sailor is always dry, warming itself around the fire. The sailor does not love the sea: he works on it and fears it. He dreams of always having the earth under his feet, remembering the aromas, faces and flavours of home.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will buy me life with songs and smiles.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being master of only a small art, I often had to exchange it for food.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We [artists] are salespeople. It remains to be seen whether we are honest enough to sell fresh meat or rotten meat.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rarely has an artist been a hero. More often than not, he lives in isolation, like a very shy rabbit.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not having a home means having the culture of the street, understanding the sky and the clouds, knowing the herbs and fruits, driving a cart or a car, getting a horse to obey you and avoiding the police. Writing takes time, even for the chatter of a concert. But it is better not to write a whole sentence than to remove a single word that gives meaning to a sentence.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men fall into two categories: those who think and those who let others think.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I usually reserve sensational endings that elicit applause for songs.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you have no chance to decide your own fate, you put yourself in the hands of someone who, at that moment, you hope exists. And so you give in to the temptation of prayer: not your own prayer, which you may not be capable of, but one of those you were taught as a child and which, perhaps, you still remember by heart.”
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“The worst thing when you are about to die is knowing that you have a chance to save yourself.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't feel responsible for being better than others. What I can't stand is taking pleasure in proving it.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through the practice of solitude, one cultivates dignity: I find it far more dignified to beg for alms than to stab one's colleague in the back at the office.”
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“Cancer and AIDS are polite beasts: they eat a very meagre ration of flesh compared to what you have eaten, and they do not leave you alone as you try to do with them.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I believed in God, I would believe that life promises us a heavenly dessert after a horrible meal.”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fabrizio De André, Sotto le ciglia chissà. I diari, Mondadori, Milano, 2016. ISBN 978-88-04-65821-4”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fabrizio De André, Una goccia di splendore. , Guido Harari (editor), Rizzoli, 2007. ISBN 978-88-17-01166-2”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Roberto Cotroneo (editor), Come un'anomalia, in Parole e canzoni, Einaudi, Torino, 1999. ISBN 88-06-15306-4”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cesare G. Romana (editor), Amico fragile. , Sperling & Kupfer, 1999. ISBN 88-200-1214-6”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source