Luciano Pavarotti Quotes

I am open to everything.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

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.

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.

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.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

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 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.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

I am a very superstitious person.

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.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.

People have a right to criticize.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

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.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

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.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.

I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

I want to be famous everywhere.

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.

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?

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.

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.