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