Top 100 Quotes About Andrea Bocelli

#1. You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

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#2. I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.

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#3. I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

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#4. An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

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#5. Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

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#6. My style in Italian is very old-style.

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#7. I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.

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#8. The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.

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#9. When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!

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#10. The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.

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#11. In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.

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#12. A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

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#13. I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.

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#14. The joy of a return is worth the price one pays at the moment of departure.

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#15. I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.

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#16. I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

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#17. In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

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#18. 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.

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#19. My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.

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#20. When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

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#21. Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

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#22. In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.

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#23. I speak to God every day.

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#24. The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

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#25. If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.

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#26. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

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#27. Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.

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#28. Criticism in good faith is good. When it's targeted solely to destruction, I'm not interested.

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#29. I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.

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#30. Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

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#31. The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as it was at the very beginning.

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#32. Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

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#33. Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

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#34. I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

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#35. I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

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#36. I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.

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#37. I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would be stupid for me to box.

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#38. For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume ... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.

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#39. I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

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#40. Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

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#41. I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

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#42. Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.

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#43. Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.

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#44. 'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.

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#45. To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

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#46. It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

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#47. I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.

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#48. It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

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#49. To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.

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#50. If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

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#51. I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

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#52. I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

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#53. I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

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#54. Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.

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#55. Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

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#56. Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

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#57. I like reading ... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

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#58. Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.

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#59. Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

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#60. Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

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#61. I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.

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#62. For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

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#63. I have big, big stage fright.

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#64. My idol has been Franco Corelli. But every singer can teach you something.

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#65. 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.

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#66. I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

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#67. To sing a song is like whispering to a child's ear. It is an art heavily relying on improvisation.

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#68. I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

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#69. More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.

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#70. You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

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#71. 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.

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#72. What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

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#73. When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.

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#74. 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.

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#75. The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

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#76. When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

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#77. Because I practice often with my children at home.

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#78. I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

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#79. Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

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#80. Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.

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#81. I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

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#82. Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

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#83. I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

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#84. People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

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#85. It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

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#86. The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.

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#87. 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.

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#88. I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

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#89. It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

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#90. I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn't kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn't define my life.

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#91. I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.

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#92. I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.

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#93. To be happy when you are travelling, you need to be happy inside before you leave. A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

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#94. Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

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#95. Stage fright is my worst problem.

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#96. I want to have time for myself, my family and my friends. It's important because in order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and inspiration comes from life, from living.

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#97. The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.

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#98. Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

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#99. I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country [Italy]. Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

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#100. All that counts in life is intention.

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