Quotes & Sayings About Pavarotti

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

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

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. — Peter Ustinov

I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years? — Michael Bolton

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

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

I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn't like it when you join in. — Mick Miller

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

younger. In addition to his imposing presence and his brilliant reputation, there were his sermons. Delivered with passion, humor, roaring indignation or stirring whispers, the sermon, for Albert Lewis, was like the fastball for a star pitcher, like the aria for Pavarotti. It was the reason people came; we knew it - and deep down, I think he knew it. I'm sure there are congregations where they slip out before the sermon begins. Not ours. Wristwatches were glanced at and footsteps hurried when people thought they might be late for the Reb's message. Why? I guess because he didn't approach the sermon in a traditional way. I would later learn that, while he was trained in a formal, academic style - start at point A, move to point B, provide — Mitch Albom

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

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

I am open to everything. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to be famous everywhere. — 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

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

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian. — Michael Bolton

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

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

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

People have a right to criticize. — Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation. — Frank Sinatra

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

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

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

Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias,
my brother. Every window a tenor leans,
there are sopranos in the olive branches.
And all across the globe the world
turns to crescendos. — Sean Thomas Dougherty

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

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

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

I am a very superstitious person. — Luciano Pavarotti

I was an elementary school teacher. — 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

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

I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani ... — Susan Lucci

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

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

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

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

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized, — 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 tenor buff. I hear myself. — 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

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

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