Enrico Caruso Quotes
It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.
Key, Pierre V. R., and Bruno Zirato. Enrico Caruso: A Biography. Little, Brown, and Company, 1922, p. 308.
Commenting on the then unratified U. S. Constitution:
Enrico Caruso was an Italian operatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles (74) from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. One of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded, Caruso made 247 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920, which made him an international popular entertainment star.