{"id":566897,"date":"2016-11-09T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/?p=566897"},"modified":"2016-11-09T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:28:29","slug":"vecchioni-you-must-live-the-life-you-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.varesenews.it\/2016\/11\/vecchioni-you-must-live-the-life-you-love\/566897\/","title":{"rendered":"Vecchioni: \u201cYou must live the life you love\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The award ceremony began with a video accompanied by the notes of \u201c<strong>Samarcanda<\/strong>\u201d, with the lights of <strong>Villa<\/strong> <strong>Napoleonica<\/strong> off. The audience first stamped their feet, then clapped their hands, in time to the music and accompanied a version of the famous ballad, which was performed with <strong>Angelo<\/strong> <strong>Branduardi<\/strong>, from Varese, in a video with the two artistes playing Laurel and Hardy. Immediately afterwards came the beautiful \u201c<strong>Blue<\/strong> <strong>moon<\/strong>\u201d. It was all very moving, because the two videos talked about the two events we all share: life and death.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Roberto<\/strong> <strong>Vecchioni<\/strong> came onto the stage of the Chiara Prize to receive the award \u201c<strong>Le parole della musica<\/strong>\u201d (Words in music), his eyes had tears in them; they were neither happy nor sad, but deeply moved. We cannot blame him. At the age of 73, there is nothing wrong with confessing to some past mischief, with using a few swearwords, with being carried away by the emotions of the moment, including tears.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democracy<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong> <strong>purity<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cI\u2019ve been trying to communicate the purity of emotions for 40 years, because that\u2019s what matters. It\u2019s important to hold on to your instinctive feelings, as did Merini and Rimbaud, who shared emotions in a unique way. I admit that I also wrote for fun, but always looking for that purity.\u201d Vecchioni dealt with a difficult topic, namely the relationship between democracy and beauty, which do not always work to the same end. \u201cDemocracy works for justice and freedom, but not for beauty, which, most often, the majority of people don\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vecchioni is a master at keeping the audience\u2019s attention, and the three Tenco interviewers, <strong>Enrico<\/strong> <strong>de<\/strong> <strong>Angelis<\/strong>, <strong>Antonio<\/strong> <strong>Silva<\/strong> and the journalist <strong>Vittorio Colombo<\/strong> supported him ably. \u201cSometimes nasty things happen,\u201d Vecchioni continued, \u201cfor example, it\u2019s been crazy at the Tenco. Ah, but the Tenco judges always award Paolo Conte for something. They\u2019re crazy about him. At the same time, he is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob Dylan deserved the Nobel Prize<\/strong> \u2013 When people were deciding whether or not Dylan should get the Nobel Prize, Vecchioni made his alliance immediately clear. \u201cI\u2019ve been a fan of Bob Dylan for ages, because he showed us that the imperfection of concrete things matters more than the perfection of abstract things. And I\u2019d like to remind <strong>Alessandro<\/strong> <strong>Baricco<\/strong>, who said that songs aren\u2019t literature and that literature doesn\u2019t correspond with writing but with the word, that he\u2019s a legend and an archetype. Singing is a wonderful kind of communication, even the ancients used to sing their prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The teacher of Greek<\/strong> \u2013 Vecchioni is one of the few singer-songwriters, who, despite being famous, continued to do a normal job, to teach Greek at the \u201cParini\u201d High School, in Milan. \u201cThe word is sensitive,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cYou don\u2019t study Greek to speak it but to learn from it. And it\u2019s essential, because it teaches you conciseness, depth of thought, which are essential in a life where you train up to the age of 18, and then start running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>When I met poet Untale, that is, Montale<\/strong> &#8211; \u201cMy father was a crazy player and womaniser,\u201d Vecchioni said. \u201cHe sold fabrics and, for a certain time in his life, was in love with painting and began to buy paintings all over the place; all worthless, but he knew something about art. One day, he took me to the Santa Lucia Pizzeria, in Milan. It was famous because all the artists, actors and poets used to go there, and he would point them all out to me. \u2018Can you see that one? Do you see that other one?\u2019 He told me their names and surnames. One day he pointed to some guy, who wasn\u2019t exactly good-looking, with his hair in a mess. \u2018Can you see that man? He\u2019s a great poet, his name\u2019s Montale.\u2019 I looked at him, and asked, \u2018Dad, what do poets do?\u2019 \u2018Poets see things that we can\u2019t see,\u2019 he replied quickly, and then went straight to the toilet. I was a kid; I worked up the courage and went to the poet Untale, because that\u2019s what I\u2019d heard. And asked him, \u2018Mr Untale, if it\u2019s true that poets see what other people can\u2019t see, can you tell me where my electric train ended up?\u2019 Montale was very kind; he smiled and said he didn\u2019t know. As soon as my dad had come back, I said, \u2018It\u2019s not true that Untale is a great poet; he can\u2019t see anything.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The moral of a lifetime<\/strong> \u2013 Einaudi have just published \u201c<strong>La vita che si ama<\/strong>\u201d (The Life You Love). Vecchioni has called it an autobiographical book, written to answer the questions of his four, grown-up children. \u201cOne day, my thirty-year-old daughter told me that they didn\u2019t know me very well; they couldn\u2019t understand why I was so dynamic and witty on stage, but at home, I was so morose, a jerk, lost, staring out of the window. \u2018What are you really like?\u2019 she asked. I replied with this book, saying that, basically, the things that have impressed me are the little things, and that happiness is being with others and with yourself. It was then that I remembered a phrase that my mother, a true Neapolitan, would say. \u2018<strong>Robertino, you must live the life you love<\/strong>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The masterpiece of Luci a San Siro<\/strong> \u2013 It is one of Vecchioni\u2019s most famous songs, written the night before he left for military service, when his girlfriend, who he was madly in love with, said she did not love him anymore. \u201cIt was deeply painful, because everything was going well: we loved each other, there was perfect harmony, there was passion, sex, feeling, and all of a sudden, it all vanished. Then, I decided I would keep the things I love forever, so in the song, that girl will always be just as she was at that moment. And to overcome time, I put everything I felt at the time into it. \u2018Luci a San Siro\u2019 is proof that happiness is sometimes masked by pain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer-songwriter, who received the Chiara Prize \u201cLe parole della musica\u201d, at Ville Ponti, spoke openly about his life, admitting that he has experienced all that he has loved, including pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[415],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vecchioni: \u201cYou must live the life you love\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The singer-songwriter, who received the Chiara Prize \u201cLe parole della musica\u201d, at Ville Ponti, spoke openly about his 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