The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Luciano Pavarotti
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
I am a very superstitious person.
I was an elementary school teacher.
Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.
He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.
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.
You don't need any brains to listen to music.
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.
I want to be famous everywhere.
If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.
It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
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.
Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.
I am open to everything.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
People have a right to criticize.
Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
