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Vote:   | At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship. |
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Vote: | But when you enter an Opera role or you sing a song which has a story, yes, it's the soul that expresses itself. |
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Vote: | Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no. |
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Vote: | For lunch I only have a little pasta with olive oil and parmesan, and a salad and perhaps a banana before the concert. |
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Vote: | I am always living very good moments. |
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Vote: | I am extraordinarily lucky, I was born in a family of strong moral values, and in my life I was able to do what I liked best: debuts, great theatres, but above all, inner and deep satisfaction. |
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Vote: | I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a while. |
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Vote: | I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform. |
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Vote: | I never sing in the shower, but sometimes I sing in the bathroom, since bathrooms usually have great acoustics. |
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Vote: | I think the second to be true, because the soul is the center and the source of all these emotions, it's the start of singing, it's inside us; the voice is the instrument, but it's the brain that gives the orders for our actions, so I strongly believe that singing starts in the soul. |
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Vote: | I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound. |
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Vote: | I've always said that music is like literature. |
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Vote: | I've recorded an album with certain pieces of classical music, by composers like Chopin, Albinoni, Brahms. |
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Vote: | I've thought that there is a kind of music for every occasion. It depends on the circumstances and the person's state of mind. |
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Vote: | If you sing respecting the style and the composer, the audience and the critics will judge if you are suitable for that role. |
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Vote: | In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you. |
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Vote: | It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces. |
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Vote: | Italians have no sense of the dramatic. |
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Vote: | Luciano wants to try a more experimental, trippy sound... Y'know, fifteen minutes of silence followed by wind chimes and then a loud gong. Really screwed up stuff. |
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Vote: | Music isn't only a profession. |
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Vote: | My hobbies? I like collecting art deco objects, and I'm a loyal fan of the FC Barcelona soccer club. |
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Vote: | No, the vocal exercise is much more mechanic, you are not performing a role, you are not a character, you are not an interpreter who expresses himself musically, textually and dramatically. |
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Vote: | Other characters I love are Andrea Chenier, Alvaro from La Forza del Destino... Tenors are lucky, because they can choose from a very wide range of roles. |
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Vote: | Personally, every time a person who has Leukemia is transplanted, so he will be cured and very probably totally healed and restored to full health thanks to our initiatives, I feel an enormous satisfaction, and I really feel useful, while in singing many other can do what I do. |
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Vote: | Placido is content with just banging out the same stuff we've always been doing. |
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Vote: | That would give me great pleasure because Italy is the country so close to my heart. |
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Vote: | The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukaemia. |
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Vote: | To be honest, that was the last name that I would have wanted. All three of us wanted something a little bit cooler-sounding... The Vipors... DeathBlaster... something with an edge. |
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Vote: | We are singing with feelings and emotions, our soul is the whole of this feelings and emorions. |
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Vote: | When you arrive at a certain level it's very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no. |
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Vote: | Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia. |
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Vote: | Yes, you must have the courage of being free. |