15 Quotes by Richard Bonynge

I think the air in New York is death.

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

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

I am one of the luckiest people ever born.

I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.

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

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

Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me as long as you don't mind what I tell you, because I'm not going to flatter you. I'm going to tell you what I think.' Oh, yes, they're quite happy about that, until they hear it.

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