Richard Bonynge

Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me…

— Richard Bonynge

I am busy all day long. Never bored - I don't know what the word means.

— Richard Bonynge

Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!

— Richard Bonynge

I'm very fortunate. I've led a charmed life, I think.

— Richard Bonynge

I think the air in New York is death.

— Richard Bonynge

I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris…

— Richard Bonynge

The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too,…

— Richard Bonynge

I am one of the luckiest people ever born.

— Richard Bonynge

I go to bed at midnight and get up at 9. I never take a nap. I don't get tired.

— Richard Bonynge

If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch…

— Richard Bonynge

I've had a wonderful life - I really didn't expect to have this career.

— Richard Bonynge

The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't…

— Richard Bonynge

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

— Richard Bonynge

When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.

— Richard Bonynge

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the…

— Richard Bonynge