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.
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.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi Björling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.
Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love
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.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.
The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.
I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.
Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.
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'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
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.
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.
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