If you don't have the possibility of listening to music, you can't know if you love it.
The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.
I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.
I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something - and I am for life.
It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.
I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.
Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.
I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.
'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection of cherished memories, of moments, of fleeting emotions, of sleepless nights.
I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.
In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.
Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.
My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.
I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.
In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell.
