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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
I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.
Andrea Bocelli
Love
Music
People
Some People
Important
Think
Later
Kind
Record
Some
Classical
Classical Music
Another
Because
Discover
Repertoire
Did
Pop
Pop Music
Many
Album
I want to have time for myself, my family and my friends. It's important because in order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and inspiration comes from life, from living.
Andrea Bocelli
Life
Time
Myself
Family
You
Important
Living
Must
Inspiration
Sing
Well
Because
Friends
Order
Want
My style in Italian is very old-style.
Andrea Bocelli
Style
Italian
Very
The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.
Andrea Bocelli
Life
Relationship
People
My Life
Type
Way
Defines
Sight
No Connection
More
Fact
Between
Sing
Blind
Am
Blood
Wonder
Than
Lack
Interest
Should
Connection
I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.
Andrea Bocelli
Home
Mind
Frame
Europe
European
I respect very much my public and also the music I perform.
Andrea Bocelli
Music
Respect
Perform
Also
Very
Public
Much
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
Andrea Bocelli
Love
Character
Me
Love Me
Stage
Every
Like
Audience
Fright
America
Stage Fright
Much
Suffer
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
Andrea Bocelli
Reading
Virginia
Virginia Woolf
Classics
Russian
Like
Also
French
Woolf
Tolstoy
Hemingway
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Time
You
Queen
Matter
King
Naked
Singing
Before
Stage
Every
Enough
Every Time
Intimate
Scared
About
Something
Voice
Perform
Very
Front
Anybody
Anything
Your
Pope
Suffer
Why
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
Cry
Boy
Upbringing
Product
More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.
Andrea Bocelli
Happy
People
Opportunity
Listening
Everybody
Must
Given
More
More People
Opera
When the mood takes me, I like to be a man of action. I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better!
Andrea Bocelli
Love
Me
Man
Ride
Better
Action
Faster
Wilder
Mood
Be A Man
Horses
Takes
Like
Most
Ski
Ride Horses
A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.
Andrea Bocelli
Positive
Me
Experience
Challenge
Mind
Will
Frame
Definitely
More
Becomes
Then
Your
Whole
Enhance
Travelling
Thing
I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
Andrea Bocelli
First
Rapport
Excellent
Since
Opera
Well
Concert
Court
Felt
Understand
Always
Understood
Hampton
Very
Ever
Britain
British
I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.
Andrea Bocelli
Home
Go Away
Live
Rule
My Number One
More
Weeks
Go
Than
Children
Away
Number
Two
Two Weeks
It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.
Andrea Bocelli
Resort
Parent
Who
While they are kids, my children must do as I say.
Andrea Bocelli
Say
Kids
Must
Children
While
Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
Andrea Bocelli
Dangerous
Important
Living
Know
Important Thing
Limits
Thing
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Life
Time
Great
Happy
My Life
First
Singing
Baby
Would
Crying
Singer
First Time
Heard
Began
Stop
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.
Andrea Bocelli
Love
Music
Time
Me
Happy
People
First
Young
Same Thing
Immediately
Kind
Voice
Tenor
Come
Fell
Opera
Because
First Time
Hear
Heard
Very
Child
Same
Listen
Happened
Theater
Young People
Thing
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