Quotes By Luciano Pavarotti

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

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

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

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

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

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.

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

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

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

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

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

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

I am a very superstitious person.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

People have a right to criticize.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

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

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

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

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

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

I am open to everything.

I want to be famous everywhere.

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

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

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

I was an elementary school teacher.