Quotes from Luciano Pavarotti

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.

I am a very superstitious person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

People have a right to criticize.

I was an elementary school teacher.

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 want to be famous everywhere.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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