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Franco Battiato
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“I came to understand certain things after many years of study and research, and through my experiences. Afterwards, reintroducing myself to society was not easy. I had trouble recognizing human beings when I was on the street or on the tram. It was strange: I didn't understand if I was crazy or a mystic. But I realized that the journey on this planet is decisive. We must escape the rules of the universe.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you are unable to watch something different from yourself, it is because you need an enemy. Italian politics has influenced certain attitudes in this regard. In Venice, it has always been this way since Fellini onwards. Once, the police had to rescue Carmelo Bene because they wanted to kill him. They uprooted the chairs in the cinema.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The crisis in human beings is decisive, otherwise existence is useless. I have taken refuge in what is called metaphysics because I am someone who believes that human beings are immortal.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Speaking of Giorgio Gaber) In the mid-1970s, we spent wonderful evenings talking and playing poker until morning. Giorgio was an impressive listener. He was extremely intelligent, curious, and open-minded. Being a perfectionist, he could not stand (and in this he was fierce) incivility, incompetence, sloppiness, delinquency as a philosophy of life... And then there was corrupt politics. [...] The passing of such a man in our midst was, for me, yet another proof that life is not a matter of chance.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inner evolution has no party. Those who want me on one side or the other do not appreciate my music, and if they think they do, it is a misunderstanding. In 1982, during a concert in Verona, I sang “Centro di gravita' permanente” and found myself surrounded by four thousand outstretched arms: it was mind-blowing. However, the left has committed crimes as horrible as those of the right throughout the world.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am naturally a contemplative person. Scents and the air are like a remote control that turns off the world for me.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Morgan is a very knowledgeable guy, I would say a complete musician because he also has a classical background, and this helps a lot, because as the saying goes, “the more you know, the more you're worth,” and if you also have talent, as in his case, that's it.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Speaking of the reality show ‘'L'isola dei famosi’') I don't want to feel intelligent watching idiots, I want to feel like an idiot watching intelligent people.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been a committed vegetarian for many years, I can't even remember how many. Even as a child I refused to eat meat, I just didn't like it. [...] Over time, being vegetarian has become an existential necessity. I can no longer eat something that is close to human sensitivity. And one day, long ago, I realized that my choice was irreversible. [...] Also because I see the results on my health and my mental state. Since I banned meat and fish, I have had better dreams, and I know for sure that it depends on the food I eat.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Morgan is not a carbon copy of the Americans or the British, but an independent thinker, and it's nice to hear him speak.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are storytellers from the island, such as Bufalino, Sgalambro, Tomasi di Lampedusa, who made their debut late in life. It is as if, for years, they had pointed a large telescope at the surrounding world. Then, drawing on their reserves and giving us, as Bufalino does, novels of overflowing sensuality, a Dionysian Sicily, full of flavors and colors.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘’Il Gioco dell'Eroe‘’ by Gianluca Magi is a large stone thrown into a still pond. An invitation to inner life and its (inevitable) evolutionary transmutation.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And then culture is a difficult word to interpret. We are one of those countries that has only thought about stealing.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The extraordinary and disastrous event, albeit pleasantly bizarre, is death. One day I will die silently, I will enter esoteric and synoptic spaces, moving in siderurgical and negotiable conditions. Farewell world, I will say then. I am dead forever.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Referring to the degenerative disease that had affected Battiato) He was always Franco. He always had been, regardless of outward appearances. In fact, perhaps that day he was even more so.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The last time I saw him was in Milo in 2020. I went to visit him at his home and we spent the whole day together. They were intense moments in which words were unnecessary.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the 1980s, Franco and I had common interests beyond music. We had both arrived, by different paths, at the teachings of the philosopher and mystic Gurdjieff. In 1981, I was given his book ‘'Meetings with Remarkable Men’', and it took me two years before I opened it: I read it in one sitting. I was finally ready.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Interviewer: “How much did Battiato influence your career?” Alice: A great deal. Before meeting Franco, I probably would have stopped singing because I had already tried twice and failed to achieve what I wanted.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My desire was to be an instrument of what Franco conveyed musically and what he communicated. This is fundamental for me: what Franco left us is a precious gift that must be watered, nourished, and kept alive forever, even if there were no need to do so. His records, his films, and his paintings bear witness to his thoughts and his culture. He called himself a “man of music.” He was unique.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The bad moments I've had in my life have only been cosmological in nature. Once during the night I got up, came into this room and looked my fear in the face, carefully, and the crisis was resolved. It's not easy, because at that moment you feel like a being thrown into nothingness, you have no ties to anything. It is the dark night of St. John of the Cross, suffering that seems insurmountable, unbearable, and yet you can overcome it in the blink of an eye. Just remember that we are impermanent. We think we are eternal, and that is our misfortune. They don't teach us how to die in school; the ancient Egyptians, on the other hand, built a civilization around death.”
Franco Battiato (1945–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source