Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Americans love the sport that they play when they are a kid.
At the age of 4. I jump on the table. I am a little tenor. And I begin to sing, La Donna e Mobile.
Australia I was with a tour with Joan Sutherland. It was very great experience.
Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.
Every Italian play football. The first gift they give you when you are 3 is a ball.
Everything is new. Every night is new. Our profession is very exciting for that reason.
For an Italian, being honored in America was a big privilege.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
Gene Kelly like to sing in the rain.
He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
I am a fanatic of soccer. I play tennis in doubles.
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
I am a very superstitious person.
I am father, and I am grandfather. So there is two love.
I am open to everything.
I am proud to be a messenger of peace for the United Nations.
I can tell you which aria the audience like. Nessun Dorma, from Turandot.
I enjoy these concerts: meeting and performing with singers from completely different genres, artists who live a completely different life from that of an opera singer.
I have a granddaughter that is older than my daughter.
I have lost twice 85 pounds. Can you imagine? Twice.
I haven't seen the Elton John, but I have seen Rent on many occasions.
I know one second before if is not going well. Absolutely. I feel it.
I made 12 duets. It was such a pleasure to know these people from the inside, not from the cover of an album.
I smoke cigar in the summertime. Probably in three months, 10 cigar.
I travel a lot, of course. A lot of time in the hotel, a lot of time on the plane.
I want to be famous everywhere.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
I was an elementary school teacher.
I was suffering myself. Probably my wife suffer more, but I don't think so. I suffer a lot.
I would like to raise money for the kids from the world. To do that, the only way, it was to call pop singer. If you call pop singer, you can sell the ticket.
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
I'm living in Modena, my city where I was born.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
If is an old piece, I go to hear a tenor, then were there before me, and immediately understand if I can do.
If they boo me because I sing bad, they will do it.
If you are gifted from God, He give you the gift of the voice, and even the intelligence to drive it.
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
If you want to do something really bad to me, you invite at your home, and put one record of mine. And my digestion will be finished before begin.
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.
In our profession, the voice is really around 18, 20, and it can improve even more.
In our profession, when a tenor is decent, everybody knows in the world.
In the studio, you have two or three tracks, and then when you put together, it is not good enough, you will go over it and you try to do better.
It is a great honor for me to be able to take the music of the tenor to a great number of people.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
It was something completely new, jumping like that, without any try before. We rehearse a month.
It's better to have a good acoustic, so you use all the color of your voice.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Many theaters put the translation, simultaneous translation. And they understand everything.
My father died last year, unfortunately, with a tenor voice, and he was singing beautifully until the last day of his life.
My father is a tenor, and my mother is a very sensitive lady, very sensible. They gave me both their quality.
My father took the drive license at the age of 60. I force him, I dress him, I go inside the little machine, take a picture, go to the mayor.
My father was almost 90, and my mother was 87. I was a very good son.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.
People have a right to criticize.
Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
The applause are telling me that I did well. I have a kick, like you say.
The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
The first night I was so scared of the conductor. I did not know if I were able to go with the orchestra, remember all the words, all the action.
The Met of New York, I make so many things there. Milano opera house. There is Vienna, Paris, many opera houses around the world.
The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
The record company is investing money. And I think it should be remunerated.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
The sound of the voice, and how you use the voice, the phrasing. The intonation, the musicality. That is why I did have success and my father didn't.
The surprise person who come out for me was Kofi Annan. I cannot ask more than that.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
There is too much respect of the three of us. People will drive to see us fight. But we cannot. We respect too much each other.
These concerts raise much more funding than we could ever possibly hope to raise with pure classical musicians.
They don't understand, because it is written in Italian or in French or in Dutch. These are the languages that are used.
Ti Adore is I adore you, which is dedicated to my daughter, who is now 8 months old. I lost my mind. Really.
Tosca was a little noise they made around when they canceled the performance, and now I'm coming to do three performances, so we'll be even.
We just baptized my daughter, and we have 300 people in the church. When we are going to be married, we will be alone.
We lost one boy, but we have one girl, so, a blessing.
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
With the piano, at the age of 18, I was already singing for $1, $2 a performance.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
You have to cancel when your voice is not right. When you have a flu, when the voice look like that, you cannot sing when you are like that.
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