Juan Diego Florez Quotes

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

I want to sing because I want to sing.

I'm a singer and as long as I can sing - which, thank God, is something that I still seem to be able to do - I'd like to carry on making records.

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

What appealed to me was that the focus of 'North Atlantic' was more about performance rather than emoting, because I was at a point in life where it was nice not to have to emote all over the place.

Barbara and I wanted to do a television special, and she put it together with T Bone Burnett, and they came up with the idea of it being black and white. It was fabulous; we had a great time. It was wonderful.

I love to sing, but I really only love to do it when it goes along with acting, when it's my character singing. I'd rather not do an album or tour.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

For a long time, I thought of singing as my mom's thing. I loved it, but I thought of dance as my thing.

The basis of everything I do is down to the song. If I don't have the song I don't sing, and if I don't sing I don't perform.

I love any TV show that has to do with singing.

I view myself as a musician and I focus on music - other people may try to focus on the music, but the emphasis is heavily on visuals and performance. They're both equally valid, but different.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.