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I am open to everything.
I want to be famous everywhere.
I am a very superstitious person.
People have a right to criticize.
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
I was an elementary school teacher.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love
The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.
Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.
Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.
On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.
People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.
I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.
If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.
I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.
If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.
For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.
Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.