I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
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.
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
I've been buying the same lambrusco from Correggio [a town between Reggio-Emilia and Modena] since 1965.