 But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows. |
| With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice. |
| I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me. |
| We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad. |
| Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was. |
| I have always studied my parts with the orchestral score and not with the piano reduction. |
| I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18. |
| It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years. |
| Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity. |
| The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it. |
| When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. |
| On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there. |
| My strength is my enthusiasm. |
| The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles. |
| I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities. |
| When working with an orchestra, you never spend more than 20 minutes per recording session. |
| The atmosphere of the theater is my oxygen. |
| In the last century, everybody was singing lower. |
| Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career? |
| To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day. |
