15 Quotes by Richard Bonynge

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

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

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

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 Wagner because I think a lot of people do it a hell of a lot better than I could. I do the operas I think I can do, know something about.

The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when you get something happening in opera.

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