In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.

My strength is my enthusiasm.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.