I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is a very natural thing; it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it. — Andrea Bocelli Father Copy Share Image
I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind. — Andrea Bocelli Flute Copy Share Image
I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going… — Andrea Bocelli Around the world Copy Share Image
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy.… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry… — Andrea Bocelli Beautiful Copy Share Image
I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If… — Andrea Bocelli Accidents Copy Share Image
For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something… — Andrea Bocelli Audience Copy Share Image
I try to find some time for my horses. I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her… — Andrea Bocelli Art Copy Share Image
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Faith has a role to play in life. It is not related to success. It is the other way round. Success is… — Andrea Bocelli Faith Copy Share Image
I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses.… — Andrea Bocelli Before and after Copy Share Image
I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I consider the voice a gift from the heavens, and as all the gifts from the heavens, they must be used, but… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child,… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you… — Andrea Bocelli Change Copy Share Image
Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would… — Andrea Bocelli Blindness Copy Share Image
In singing, you cannot 'cheat' if you want to give emotions to those who are listening. You must have something to tell. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that… — Andrea Bocelli Boys Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. — Andrea Bocelli Blind Copy Share Image
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
The voice changes very slowly. I keep mine well under control and try with all my might to keep it exactly as… — Andrea Bocelli Beginning Copy Share Image
Stage fright is my worst problem. A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the… — Andrea Bocelli Challenges Copy Share Image
Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song,… — Andrea Bocelli Children Copy Share Image
