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

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

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.

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

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

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

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