I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

I was an elementary school teacher.

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

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

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

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

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

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

I am a very superstitious person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.

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

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

People have a right to criticize.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I am open to everything.

The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing.You must know where the double fences are.

The reason fat people are happy is that their nerves are well protected.

The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

I think baking is very rewarding and if you follow a good recipe you will get success.

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.

Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.

The eccentric never changes themselves never even contemplates doing that ... Theyre always true to their own nature and as far as theyre concerned the rest of society can either like them or not.

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics.