Top 40 Luciano Pavarotti Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

— Luciano Pavarotti

3. “People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

— Luciano Pavarotti

6. “Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

7. “I am open to everything.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

— Luciano Pavarotti

9. “Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

10. “The better voice doesn’t mean being a better singer.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

11. “I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

12. “I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

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

— Luciano Pavarotti

14. “I’m not a politician, I’m a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

15. “I was an elementary school teacher.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

16. “Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?”

— Luciano Pavarotti

17. “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.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

18. “It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

19. “There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

20. “If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

21. “I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

22. “The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

23. “Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

24. “I’m a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it’s good.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

25. “If you see me once, you cannot confuse me with another.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

26. “Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

27. “If you know why you fall in love, you aren’t in love.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

28. “If I go three days without vocalizing, the voice is gone.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

29. “I am a very superstitious person.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

30. “Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

31. “For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

32. “I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

33. “Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

34. “Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

35. “I want to be famous everywhere.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

36. “Some say the word ‘pop’ is a derogatory word to say ‘not important’ – I do not accept that. If the word ‘classic’ is the word to say ‘boring,’ I do not accept. There is good and bad music.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

37. “You don’t need any brains to listen to music.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

38. “Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

39. “In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

40. “It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

41. “On the day I’m performing, I don’t hear anything anyone says to me.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

42. “I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

43. “It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

44. “People have a right to criticize.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

45. “I think an important quality that I have is that if you turn on the radio and hear somebody sing, you know it’s me. You don’t confuse my voice with another voice.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

46. “The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.”

— Luciano Pavarotti