Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

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

“I was an elementary school teacher.”

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

“I am open to everything.”

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

“I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.”

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

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

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

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

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

“One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

“I want to be famous everywhere.”

“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.”

“People have a right to criticize.”