Quotes About Enrico Caruso

#1. The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

Robert Duvall

#2. Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up a new key, in the treatment of the ritual chant, and overcoming vocal difficulties that lie in the words rather than in the music.

Enrico Caruso

#3. It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

Jon Stewart

#4. Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.

Brett Gardner

#5. I never step upon a stage without asking myself whether I will succeed in finishing the opera. The fact is that a conscientious singer is never sure of himself or of anything. He is ever in the hands of Destiny.

Enrico Caruso

#6. Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

Enrico Caruso

#7. It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

Enrico Caruso

#8. I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.

Pauly D

#9. Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness or not.

Sandhya Jane

#10. But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

Channing Tatum

#11. It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.

Enrico Caruso

#12. To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

Enrico Caruso

#13. Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Claire Coffee

#14. I had always sung, as far back as I can remember, for the pure love of it. My voice was contralto, and I sang in a church in Naples from fourteen till I was eighteen.

Enrico Caruso

#15. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

#16. I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

Enrico Caruso

#17. Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning.

Karen White

#19. In space no one can hear you scream; and in a black hole, no one can see you disappear.

Stephen Hawking

#20. It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn.

Anna Godbersen

#21. I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

Enrico Caruso

#22. I don't have much patience for people who enjoy limitless liberty while decrying those who get their hands dirty to make sure it exists for them.

Jule McBride

#23. The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.

Enrico Caruso