Andrea Bocelli Quotes

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.

Being a photographer is like listening to music. If you have a camera, by just living your life you're bound to find some things that are worth taking a picture of. You don't have to be an audiophile to have taste in music. It happens through osmosis.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.

Sonic Youth, for better or worse, is/was a machine that carried me along through pregnancy, motherhood, and creative opportunities I never would have achieved on my own. I'm grateful and surprised that we were listened to, loved, ignored, and overrated.

I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

I've had an ongoing fantasy about being interviewed on, like, a '60 Minutes'-type show about this really inspiring woman that can do anything with a fake leg. And then the camera pans out, and I'm just holding a mannequin leg.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.