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I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

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Andrea Bocelli
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
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Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.
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Fatherhood is a very natural thing it's not something that shakes up my life but rather it enriches it.
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For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume ... to do something with your body. When singing in concert you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.
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I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
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It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.
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You can be great only if it is your destiny.
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I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.
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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.
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I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.
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My style in Italian is very old-style.
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For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.
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When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
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When you sing opera you are very far from the people, you are onstage, and between you and the people there is the orchestra. So you have to launch your emotions very, very far. When you sing pop, you are singing very close - the microphone is very close to your mouth. You can whisper your emotions into the microphone.
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Every audience has its character I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
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Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.
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My real passion is for opera. It was born and developed by listening to records, and my dream as a child was to record entire operas when I grew up, and this dream came true.
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More people are listening to opera, and I'm happy - everybody must be given that opportunity.
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I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.
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I'm quite shy, so I hate seeing my private life splashed over the papers.
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