Fabrizio De André Quotes
1940–1999 Italy
Fabrizio Cristiano De André (18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter and the most-prominent cantautore of his time.
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The worst thing when you are about to die is knowing that you have a chance to save yourself.
Television is like history: there are those who make it and those who suffer it.
I usually reserve sensational endings that elicit applause for songs.
The left must not give the elderly a “past”, but a future.
No history of peace has ever been written.
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.
Rarely has an artist been a hero. More often than not, he lives in isolation, like a very shy rabbit.
Anarchism is possible in a new system of needs, finally freed from necessity. Unfortunately, necessities still exist.
Our world is divided into winners and losers, where the former number three and the latter three billion. How can we be optimistic?
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.
Being master of only a small art, I often had to exchange it for food.
Why has there never been a writer as Minister of Culture?
Genoa is also the friends who live far away and watch you grow up and grow old, for example the pescuèi who, just like in Il pescatore, have faces furrowed with wrinkles that look like smiles, and whatever you confide in them, they already know from the sea.
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.
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.
I don't feel responsible for being better than others. What I can't stand is taking pleasure in proving it.
We [artists] are salespeople. It remains to be seen whether we are honest enough to sell fresh meat or rotten meat.
Benedetto Croce said that everyone writes poetry until the age of eighteen. From the age of eighteen onwards, two categories of people continue to write poetry: poets and idiots. So, as a precaution, I would prefer to consider myself a singer-songwriter.
History is written by the victors.
There are those who are touched by faith and those who merely cultivate the virtue of hope [...], the God in whom, despite everything, I continue to hope, is an entity above the parties, above the factions.