Jose Carreras Quotes

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

I used to love getting older.

I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't.

I still feel pressure - I'm sure everyone who plays feels pressure - but I don't feel it as much now as when I was younger.

I'm not the spring chicken anymore.

Twenty-seven is a great age to play. There is so much ahead of you.

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.