Luciano Pavarotti Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

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.

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

If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

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.

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

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

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

You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

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.

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

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

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

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

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

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.

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

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