Andrea Bocelli Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

All that counts in life is intention.

And I think also, to be the most purist possible, because I hate the amplification for opera music and the other things.

And I try to find some time for my horses.

Because I practice often with my children at home.

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

I have big, big stage fright.

I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

No, I didn't have an exceptional voice as a child; it was a white, colorless voice, but a very flexible, elastic voice.

Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.

Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

They forget that the best tenor in the last century, beginning with Caruso, every tenor sung songs. I've done nothing special.

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

I hope there are some who will brave ridicule for the sake of common justice to half the people in the world.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

A doctor is fascinated by death, and pain. And how much pain a man can endure.