Luciano Pavarotti quotes

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

#Thinking #Perfection #Done

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

#Dance #Thinking #Differences

I was an elementary school teacher.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

#Teacher #School #Elementary School

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

#People #Opera #Want

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

#Thinking #Beautiful Life #Music Is

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

#Food #Attention #Way

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

#Love #Inspirational #Inspiring

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

#Fighting #Trying #Rivalry

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

#Music #Expression #Perfect

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

#People #Important #Age

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

#Want #Singers #Audience

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

#Brain #Needs #Listening To Music

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

#Children #Believe #Taken

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

#Fear #Men #Notes

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

#Art #Two #Opera

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

#Practice #Voice #Three

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

#Fall #Voice #Singing

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

#People #Nerves #Reason

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

#Focus #Performing

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

#Thinking #Order #World

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

#Thinking #Voice #Important

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

#Mean #Voice #Singers

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

#Thinking #People #Events

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.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

#Men #People #Giving

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

#Horse #Perfect #Singing

People have a right to criticize.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

#People #Criticize

I am open to everything.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

I am a very superstitious person.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

#Persons #Superstitious

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

#Tenors

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

#Beautiful #Important #Opera

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

#Art #Drama #Opera

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

#Complaining #Want #Able

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.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

#Unique #Voice #People

I want to be famous everywhere.
-- Luciano Pavarotti

#Want #Fame

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

#Fake People #Thinking #World

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

#Confusion

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

#Falling In Love #Fall #Love You

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

#Love Of My Life #I Love My Life #Made

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

#People #Opera #Singers

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

#Children #Play #Chance

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

#Beautiful #Giving #Generations

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

#Chinese #Three #Remember

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

#Past #Singers #Prodigies

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

#Buying #Towns

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

#Art #Important #Opera

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

#Pavarotti #Advantage

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

#Passion

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

#Excuse #Should #Excuse Me