Andrea Bocelli Quotes
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
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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.
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Because I practice often with my children at home.
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
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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.
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I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
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Naturally, women are drawn to a man who understands the subtlety of emotions, and they know I'm a passionate man. But the reason I try to keep myself in shape is so I can sing better, not to look good.
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When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.
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Stage fright is my worst problem.
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I prefer to work for my country in a free and independent way. I was born free, and I want to die free. I am always suspicious of ideology. Instead, I respect men with ideas.
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I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.
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I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.
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Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations.
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Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
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Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.
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To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which I could see light and colour with.
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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.
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The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.
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When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy. Because it's the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.
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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.
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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.
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I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.