Alfredo Kraus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

  • There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it....

  • I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

  • There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

  • You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  • Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

  • Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

  • I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

  • The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

  • Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.