Enrico Caruso Quotes

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff... and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. That's it. And what's more, the people at the very top don't work just harder or even much harder than everyone else. They work much, much harder.

One thing you notice is, there's a lot of people with raw talent, and then there's people who take that talent and work hard.

Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Singing didn't really come naturally to me, I don't think. I had to really work at it. I just kept singing. I never was really worried about it, though, because I was writing songs, and that was the most important thing to me.

I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts.

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

A coach told my mum I had talent and I would make a very good skater.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

Music is my hustle.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

When I was about forty-three years of age, I had a private secretary with a beautiful baritone voice. I told him I would give anything in the world if I could only carry a tune. He laughed and said, 'Anybody who has a voice and perseverance can sing.'