Luciano Pavarotti Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

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

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

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.

I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.

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

Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

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

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

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

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

You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.

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

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

I am a very superstitious person.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I am open to everything.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

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.

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

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

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

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

I was an elementary school teacher.

People have a right to criticize.

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.

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

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

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

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

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

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.

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.

I want to be famous everywhere.

I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized.

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