Feel Quotes

I have big, big stage fright.

Andrea Bocelli

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I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

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I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.

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It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

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The world is full of many beautiful voices; I will perform with many of them. I love women's voices.

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Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

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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 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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I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

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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.

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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.

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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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When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.

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When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.

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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.

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I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but the minute that the heavens call it back then of course I will stop.

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I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

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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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You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.

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I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.

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I am honored I have performed 'Quizas Quizas Quizas' with Jennifer Lopez, an eclectic artist who thanks to the charismatic power of her voice and to her soft sensuality, has managed to make this song particularly convincing.

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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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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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Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.

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For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

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