- I prefer to have one unbeautiful note in my voice, than perfection that doesn't mean anything.
- I didn't know any opera. I sang the songs I heard on the radio. But in those days, they played popular songs sung by the best opera voices, like Beniamino Gigli singing Mamma and Tito Schipa singing Vivere. I didn't know it then, but they were my first voice teachers!
- Leading roles in smaller theaters are better than second leads at La Scala
- You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.
- The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.
- I will be a prima donna or nothing.
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