Accounts Quote by Vincent Piazza

We had a tiny little car that was always breaking down in the street. I couldn't drive, so Luciano would make me get out…

— Mirella Freni

Luciano was like a brother to me. We grew up together in Modena - his mother and my mother worked in the same cigarette…

— Mirella Freni

I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti was a…

— Amaury Vassili

Can you imagine doing 'Nessa Dorma' with Luciano Pavarotti the maestro? It's unbelievable. He's a very generous man.

— Ian Gillan

He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at…

— Jim Butcher

There was a special place in the tobacco manufacturer where my mother and the mother of Luciano, they worked together. When we were little…

— Mirella Freni

“Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death…

— Anthony McDonald

“Johnny Cash had all of the same talents and problems as Elvis - a poor upbringing in the rural South exposure to gospel music…

— Molly Harper

I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which…

— John Lloyd Young

“He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not…

— Victor Hugo

“He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.”

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much…

— Ernest Hemingway