Andrea Bocelli quotes

Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Fate #Destiny #Persevere

Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Song #Children #People

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Dream #Song #Listening

A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach and when the treatments ended the doctors suggested that she abort the child, they told her it was the 'best solution' because the baby would be born with some disability but the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born. That woman was my Mother and I was the child.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Mother #Baby #Children

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Clever #Real #Smart

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Motivation #Men #Thinking

Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Morning #Firsts

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Fate #Ideas #Humanity

Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Music #Beautiful #Silence

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Groups #Opera #Singers

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Careers #House #Bricks

All that counts in life is intention.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Wisdom #Life Is #Intention

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Mean #Responsibility #Together

I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.
-- Andrea Bocelli

I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Soccer #Horse #Children

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Children #Home #Two

I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Football #Eye #Light

I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Hate #Shy #Paper

Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Beautiful #Mother #Religious

I also always carry my flute. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Important #Trying #Relax

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Reading #Virginia #Dostoyevsky

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Beautiful #Song #Passion

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Parent #Resorts

To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Song #Art #Children

Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Play #Roles #Way

Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Fatherhood #Natural #Shakes

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Home #Europe #Mind

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Art #Way #Trouble

I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Thinking #Helping #Gods Will

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Country #Boys #Men

Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#People #Curiosity #Purpose

Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Criticism #Destruction #Not Interested

I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Hands #Overcoming #Noses

The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Sight #Blood #People

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Strong #Moving #Prejudice

Because I practice often with my children at home.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Children #Home #Practice

'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Memories #Night #Fleeting

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Real #Singing #Heritage

Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Beautiful #Silence #Importance

Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#And Love #Facts #Study

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Mistake #Passion #Sight

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Voice #Singing #Might

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Character #America #Suffering

I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Italian #Japan #Talking

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Beautiful #Mean #Musical

When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Order #Giving #Goal

I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Children #Born

When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#People #Want

I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Land #Tuscany #Native