I was an elementary school teacher.
For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.
I want to be famous everywhere.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.
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.