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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Music is not symbolic. Music represents itself. It is a protomental phenomenon, it anticipates reason. It evokes, but not symbolically.
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)
If a miraculous voice had not performed La canzone di Marinella in 1967, I would most likely have finished my law studies and become a solicitor. I thank Mina for stacking the deck in my favour and, above all, to the benefit of my virtual clients.
The Genoese seems to be a language created for songs, just as Hebrew is a language of prophecies. (p. 234)
I used rubber picks to mimic the style of Jimmy Hall, a guitarist who produced a sound as soft as snow. (p. 42)
What I think is useful is to have the government as close to me as possible and the state, if it really can't be avoided, as far away from my balls as possible.
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.
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.
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).
[...] if I am classical high school, he (Francesco De Gregori) is university.
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.