Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

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.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

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

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

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

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

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

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

But forever was a useless term, relevant only for the dead.

You mean you don't want to come in and hold my hand while I piss?

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.

It took a lot of time for me to understand that I'm not competing against anybody but myself.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

God wants your life. Not one hour a week, not 10% of your income, He wants you.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.