Puccini Quotes

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.

I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

As a young man, I wooed, unsuccessfully, with Puccini. It's important to get your operas right.

When I was 11 years old, I wanted to sing Tosca.

My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.

I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music.

When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met - how do I top that?

Puccini is my favorite composer.