Top 57 Quotes About Pavarotti: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Pavarotti

#1. I went to watch Pavarotti once. He doesn't like it when you join in.

#2. 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

#3. Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

Peter Ustinov

#4. I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage, so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi, Pavarotti, DiMaggio, Valentino, De Niro, Giuliani ...

Susan Lucci

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#6. When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

Michael Bolton

#7. Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias,
my brother. Every window a tenor leans,
there are sopranos in the olive branches.
And all across the globe the world
turns to crescendos.

Sean Thomas Dougherty

#8. I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Michael Bolton

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

Anton Du Beke

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#12. 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

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#15. 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

#16. I want to be famous everywhere.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#18. 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

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. People have a right to criticize.

Luciano Pavarotti

#27. 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

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#29. 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

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#31. I am open to everything.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#35. I am a very superstitious person.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#37. 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

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#43. 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

#44. 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

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

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

Luciano Pavarotti

#49. 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