Italian Quotes

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

I am a person of the 18th century.

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.

When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice.

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I love to doubt as well as know.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

The secret of getting things done is to act!