Luciano Quotes

#1. Technologies as users interacting with other technologies as prompters, through other in-between technologies: this is another way of describing hyperhistory as the stage of human development

Luciano Floridi

#2. The practical joke is the psychiatry of baseball.

Ron Luciano

#3. I am a very superstitious person.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#5. Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is.

Ron Luciano

#6. 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.

Luciano Pavarotti

#7. We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.

Luciano De Crescenzo

#8. I don't profess to be Luciano Pavarotti, but I can hold a tune.

Anton Du Beke

#9. I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

Luciano Pavarotti

#10. I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

Robert Stack

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#12. We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano De Crescenzo

#13. Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle
once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

Ron Luciano

#14. He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

Luciano Pavarotti

#15. No matter what the other fifty odd weeks of his life offered, here, at least for a few days, he was officially a very special person in an otherwise ordinary world.

Lisa Luciano

#16. One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.

Ron Luciano

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#18. I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

Luciano Pavarotti

#19. 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.

Luciano Pavarotti

#20. If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

Lucky Luciano

#21. Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set.

Pete Gill

#22. For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#25. Do you know how long it took me to write 'For a Few Dollars More'? Nine days.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#26. If you know why you fall in love, you aren't in love

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#28. The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Luciano Berio

#29. In 1969, John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani came to Harvard as research fellows. Together, we found the arguments that predicted the existence of charmed hadrons.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

#30. He was her creation. From the moment they met when he wobbled onto the ice at the age of ten and refused to leave until he had learned his first jump, they could see into each others souls. Now when it counted most, there was a wall between them.

Lisa Luciano

#31. I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#32. To be a director, you have to be especially patient.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#33. I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it's me. You don't confuse my voice with another voice.

Luciano Pavarotti

#34. Get off me you dirty turnip!" "Dirty turnip? well, pardon me Signor Cabbage-Head!

Elle Newmark

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#39. I was an elementary school teacher.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#41. If it's true you learn from your mistakes, Jim Frey will be the best manager ever

Ron Luciano

#42. Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

Luciano Pavarotti

#43. Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#47. If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.

Luciano Pavarotti

#48. Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is ... well, an umpire.

Ron Luciano

#49. I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.

Ron Luciano

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#51. Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#53. I want to be famous everywhere.

Luciano Pavarotti

#54. I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.

Luciano Pavarotti

#55. Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.

Ron Luciano

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#57. Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#58. I always thought of Annenberg as my sort of guy.

Lucky Luciano

#59. We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other." - Luciano de Crescenzo

RaeAnne Thayne

#60. Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

Luciano Berio

#61. A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

Vincent Piazza

#62. Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

Luciano Pavarotti

#63. No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

Ron Luciano

#64. 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.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#67. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Luciano Pavarotti

#68. It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.

Luciano Pavarotti

#69. 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.

Luciano Pavarotti

#70. In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.

Luciano Berio

#71. There's no such thing as good money or bad money.There's just money.

Lucky Luciano

#72. People have a right to criticize.

Luciano Pavarotti

#73. If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

Luciano Pavarotti

#74. As long as Luciano and Arianna were together, he felt that all was right with the world.

Mary Hoffman

#75. I realized that cats make a perfect audience, they don't laugh at you, they never contradict you, there's no need to impress them, and they won't divulge your secrets.

Elle Newmark

#76. Pain-soaked joints. Endless miles. Concessions and compromises. Soon, finally, everything would come down to a few irretrievable revolutions of a stopwatch.

Lisa Luciano

#77. I think Beijing deserves the Olympics in order to be with all the rest of the world recognized,

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#79. Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.

Ron Luciano

#80. I am an American citizen, first class. I don't have a bade that makes me an official good guy like you, but Im work just as honest for a living.

Lucky Luciano

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#82. I am open to everything.

Luciano Pavarotti

#83. Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.

Luciano De Crescenzo

#84. The world is changing and there are new opportunities for those who are ready to join forces with those who are stronger and more experienced.

Lucky Luciano

#85. If you're going to write, you have to be open to possibility.

Richard Luciano

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#89. Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.

Ron Luciano