A biography for Andrea Bocellihasn’t been written yet.
“While they are kids, my children must do as I say.”
“The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.”
“Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.”
“People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.”
“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.”
“People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.”
“It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.”
“I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.”
“Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.”
“When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.”
“I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.”
“I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.”
“I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.”
“The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.”
“When you sing and people want that you sing, then you can hope to be great.”
“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.”
“The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.”
“My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.”
“Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.”
“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.”