Luciano Pavarotti

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

When I'm about to train a new opera, I first listen to how Jussi Björling did it. His voice was unique and it's his path that I want to follow. I would more than anything else wish that people compared me with Jussi Björling. It's like so I'm striving to sing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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