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?
Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
What is really beautiful must always be true.
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.
I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.
To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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