Music touches the soul, it stirs passion, it moves us and can make us better people. It’s no coincidence that 2000 years ago a famous Roman politician, Cato the Younger, warned that soldiers shouldn’t listen to music because it would make them unfit to wage war!

— Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli Quotes

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

— Andrea Bocelli

When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I’m very happy. Because it’s the same thing that happened to me as a child. When I first heard the tenor voice, I immediately fell in love with this kind of music.

— Andrea Bocelli

Stage fright is my worst problem.

— Andrea Bocelli

I also always carry my flute. It’s very important for me to try to relax when I’m travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

— Andrea Bocelli

Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.

— Andrea Bocelli

I did a pop album, ‘Sogno,’ in 1999. I think it’s important to record another pop album because many people love pop music. By this kind of repertoire, some people can later discover classical music.

— Andrea Bocelli

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

— Andrea Bocelli

I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn’t wait to go off on my own.

— Andrea Bocelli

When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.

— Andrea Bocelli

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.

— Andrea Bocelli

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

— Andrea Bocelli

I have big, big stage fright.

— Andrea Bocelli

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.

— Andrea Bocelli

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.

— Andrea Bocelli

When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

— Andrea Bocelli

Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother – who was a very religious person – so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

— Andrea Bocelli

If you don’t have the possibility of listening to music, you can’t know if you love it.

— Andrea Bocelli

The most stupid thing that a man can do in life is be bored.

— Andrea Bocelli

The joy of a return is worth the price one pays at the moment of departure.

— Andrea Bocelli

Music touches the soul, it stirs passion, it moves us and can make us better people. It’s no coincidence that 2000 years ago a famous Roman politician, Cato the Younger, warned that soldiers shouldn’t listen to music because it would make them unfit to wage war!

— Andrea Bocelli
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