I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Interpretation
Pavarotti expresses a desire to share the beauty of music, particularly opera, with a wide audience.
Luciano Pavarotti's quote emphasizes the importance of reaching out to others through the universal language of music. He recognizes that opera, with its profound emotional depth and artistic expression, carries a message that can resonate with people from all walks of life, inspiring a sense of connection and appreciation for the arts.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of arts education, you might say this quote to emphasize the power of music.
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?
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
Music is my way of taking my mind away from the game. When I'm singing, you don't got anything to worry about. Don't gotta worry about scoring however many points or winning the game. No matter how good or how bad you are, it's fun.
Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be said goodbye to. A movie often turns around and looks at you and says, "Here is who I am, and that's maybe now how you see me, but that's who I've become." And you've got to be open enough to go with that.
I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.
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