172 Quotes by Andrea Bocelli

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks.

When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.