Luciano Quotes & Sayings

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. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace. — Luciano Pavarotti

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing. — Ron Luciano

A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes. — Vincent Piazza

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

Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television. — Luciano Berio

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set. — Pete Gill

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

I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice. — Luciano Pavarotti

As long as Luciano and Arianna were together, he felt that all was right with the world. — Mary Hoffman

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 Pavarotti

Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head! — Elle Newmark

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. — Luciano Pavarotti

The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball. — Ron Luciano

Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is. — Ron Luciano

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s. — Martin Scorsese

Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone. — Ron Luciano

Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'. — Ron Luciano

If it's true you learn from your mistakes, Jim Frey will be the best manager ever — Ron Luciano

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza. — Luciano De Crescenzo

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. — Luciano Pavarotti

Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set. — Luciano Vincenzoni

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

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family. — Ron Luciano

My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna.
"I don't think so. I think it might be treason to kill a duke," said Luciano.
"But you're not a duke," said Arianna.
"I will be if you marry me," said Luciano.
"Yes, you would be," said Arianna.
"Would?"
"If you are asking me."
"I'm asking."
"And if I accepted."
"Do you?"
"I do. With all my heart. — Mary Hoffman

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me. — Luciano Pavarotti

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer. — Luciano Pavarotti

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. — Luciano Pavarotti

I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have. — Luciano De Crescenzo

I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune. — Anton Du Beke

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage. — Luciano Pavarotti

No matter what the other fifty odd weeks of his life offered, here, at least for a few days, he was officially a very special person in an otherwise ordinary world. — Lisa Luciano

I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule. — Ron Luciano

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. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days. — Luciano Vincenzoni

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is ... well, an umpire. — Ron Luciano

Everything felt wrong, like she was living in a parallel universe, separated by one crucial degree from the one containing the life she was meant to have. This other, true life was visible to her, even palpable at certain instances - like during the births of her sons - but impossible to occupy. She cried from pity for herself, and because of the stupidity of such pity. She cried for Luciano and for Anton. She cried because she'd only loved one boy with the follow-you-over-the-edge-of-the-earth kind of love - at fifteen. She cried for her mother, who had died two years ago, and whom she still missed every day. — Kseniya Melnik

I want to be famous everywhere. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." - Luciano de Crescenzo — RaeAnne Thayne

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

It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

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

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience. — Luciano Pavarotti

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough. — Lucky Luciano

People have a right to criticize. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

Huck is initially taken in by these two rogues, in the same manner that many Americans have been conned by progressives. The progressive scams, however, have endured for a while. Huck, however, is a quick learner. He soon figures out what his high-titled compatriots are up to. "It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings or dukes either, but just low-down humbugs and frauds."10 Assessing the pitches that progressives have been putting forward for at least the past seven years, from the reparations pitch to the inequality pitch to the "you didn't build that" pitch to the Lucky Luciano pitch, it is difficult to come to a different conclusion. — Dinesh D'Souza

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself. — Luciano Pavarotti

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule. — Ron Luciano

The world is changing and there are new opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are stronger and more experienced. — Lucky Luciano

In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves. — Luciano Berio

If you're going to write, you have to be open to possibility. — Richard Luciano

I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living. — Lucky Luciano

I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets. — Elle Newmark

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

We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly. — Luciano De Crescenzo

I was an elementary school teacher. — Luciano Pavarotti

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. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

I am open to everything. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

Like some cult religion that barely survives, there has always been at least one but rarely more than five or six devotees throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues ... Not only can't pitchers control it, hitters can't hit it, catchers can't catch it, coaches can't coach it and most pitchers can't learn it. The perfect pitch. — Ron Luciano

You don't need any brains to listen to music. — Luciano Pavarotti

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. — Robert Stack

I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice. — Luciano Vincenzoni

Pain-soaked joints. Endless miles. Concessions and compromises. Soon, finally, everything would come down to a few irretrievable revolutions of a stopwatch. — Lisa Luciano

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love — Luciano Pavarotti

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another. — Luciano Pavarotti

Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development — Luciano Floridi

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized, — Luciano Pavarotti

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. — Luciano De Crescenzo

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

To be a director, you have to be especially patient. — Luciano Vincenzoni

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music. — Luciano Berio

In 1969, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani came to Harvard as research fellows. Together, we found the arguments that predicted the existence of charmed hadrons. — Sheldon Lee Glashow

Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle
once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun. — Ron Luciano

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

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

For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

I am a very superstitious person. — Luciano Pavarotti

He was her creation. From the moment they met when he wobbled onto the ice at the age of ten and refused to leave until he had learned his first jump, they could see into each others souls. Now when it counted most, there was a wall between them. — Lisa Luciano

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

There's no such thing as good money or bad money.There's just money. — Lucky Luciano

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. — Luciano Berio

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

I always thought of Annenberg as my sort of guy. — Lucky Luciano

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

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