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Andrea Bocelli
Italian
Musician
Born:
Sep 22
,
1958
Life
Love
Me
Music
People
You
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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. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn't kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn't define my life.
Andrea Bocelli
Life
Hope
Me
Man
Science
My Life
Never Say Never
Active
Side
Define
Say
Sight
Tries
Steal
Gives
Never
Part
Involved
Blindness
Always
Were
Been
Offered
Help
Foundations
Play
Success is related to faith. Faith comes first.
Andrea Bocelli
Success
Faith
First
Related
Success Is
I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child.
Andrea Bocelli
Born
Since
Sing
Known
Always
Child
Ever
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Gift
Will
Consider
Back
Gifts
Must
Minute
Voice
Call
Course
Stop
Heavens
Then
Used
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
Andrea Bocelli
Art
Me
Words
Trouble
Way
Say
General
Art Forms
Modern
Modern Art
Human
Human Beings
Forms
Fascinate
Beings
Express
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Men
Country
Our
Country Boy
Like
Cry
Crying
Boy
Upbringing
Product
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Hero
Lost
Before
Ali
Sight
Daredevil
Horses
Learned
Box
Same
After
Loved
Bikes
Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
Even
Riding
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Myself
Good
Man
Women
Emotions
Better
Try
Drawn
Shape
Know
Look
Sing
Understands
Passionate
Women Are
Subtlety
Naturally
Reason
Who
Keep
I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
Andrea Bocelli
Universe
Lyrical
Through
Reached
Singer
Fame
Pop
International
Started
In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.
Andrea Bocelli
Value
Thought
Singing
Beginning
Pleasure
Colleagues
Collecting
Entire
Remain
Had
Study
Opera
Also
Course
Intact
Confirmed
Meaning
Meaning Of
Teachers
Preparing
Thesis
Millennium
Third
Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.
Andrea Bocelli
Mountains
Colder
Gave
All-Around
Some
Concert
Around
Years
Years Ago
Snow
Much
Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.
Andrea Bocelli
Love
Better
School
Later
Some
Only
Friends
Often
Suffered
Things
Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing.
Andrea Bocelli
Myself
Singing
More
Feel
Sure
Comfortable
Now
It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.
Andrea Bocelli
True
Lot
Younger
Suffered
I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
Andrea Bocelli
Hope
Stage
Nothing
Think
Medicine
Way
Only
Go
Want
Use
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Me
People
Ride
Passion
Big
Has-Been
Born
Horses
Because
Been
Began
Up
Child
Grew
Little
Many
Village
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
Andrea Bocelli
Me
People
Song
Try
Instead
Like
Opera
Sing
Because
Very
Child
Far
Ear
Imagine
Because I practice often with my children at home.
Andrea Bocelli
Home
Practice
Because
Often
Children
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Myself
Me
Fear
Face
Free
Way
Bit
Athletic
Some
More
Put
Sing
Makes
Audience
Always
Brakes
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
Andrea Bocelli
Athlete
Similar
Opera
Singer
Sings
Activity
The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
Andrea Bocelli
Best
History
Group
Honoured
Part
Most
Opera
Also
Singers
Am
The History Of
Being
Happen
Widely
Maria
When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
Andrea Bocelli
Best
Great
Family
Young
Mario
Others
Imitating
Records
Tenor
Like
Sing
Learn
His
Very
Trying
Used
Play
Started
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.
Andrea Bocelli
You
Yourself
Singing
Others
Please
Tell
About
Only
Voice
Sing
Well
Listen
Just
Them
Might
Ask
Your
Shower
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Music
Me
Thought
Before
Think
Later
Say
Never
Terrible
Because
Conduct
Conductor
Orchestra
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
Andrea Bocelli
Teenager
Born
More
Pianist
Than
Where
Little
Land
Raised
I speak to God every day.
Andrea Bocelli
God
Day
Every Day
Speak
Every
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