I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Luciano PavarottiRead
If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.
Interpretation
Vocal practice is essential for maintaining one's singing ability.
Luciano Pavarotti's quote emphasizes the importance of regular vocal practice and exercise for singers. It suggests that, without consistent effort and use of the voice, one can lose their vocal abilities quickly, highlighting a broader principle of skill maintenance and the need for dedication in any art form.
In practice
A vocal coach might use this quote to inspire students to practice consistently.
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.
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?
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
I'm a musician, and I feel like musicians owe it to themselves and owe it to music to concern themselves with as much of music as interests them. Even if you decide that you're never going to compose, you will be a better performer if you concern yourself with the craft of composition.
Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.
I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product
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