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Wagner is the Puccini of music.
Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.
I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino,
It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane.
Italian drivers: "...he drove as if he were at the wheel of a Ferrari at Monza. Like all drivers, he insisted on showing off his skills.
When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie,' which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta.
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
Perdonare
"Forgive Yourself)
Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!
Father Paisii, as a priest of the Moldovan Metropolitan of Orthodox Church, refused to sing the requiem.
However, as a priest of the Bessarabian Metropolitan, which in no way at all recognized the authority of the Moldovan Metropolitan, Paisii performed it.
You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.
Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants.
When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer?
That's when I see him. Peter Kavinsky, walking down the hallway. Like magic. Beautiful, dark-haired Peter. He deserves background music, he looks so good.
Sinatra is the essence of vocal style. This man has an innate quality of knowing what is good musically. You can sum that up best by saying that he has musical integrity. Even when he does a bad song, there's a good quality in the presentation.
There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.
Living or dead, Roberto would always be the only man for me.
Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry.
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
I have the greatest respect for Tony Iommi.
Don Alfredo, greatest legend of Real Madrid, always with us. I will always remember maestro.
You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
I want to be inside Nic Pizzolatto's brain.
Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all 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.
Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.
Well, Fellini ... there is always Fellini.
If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.
Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.
I'm Sinatra, I'm Frank Sinatra in disguise.
Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!
Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro.
Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?
Sassicaia from Tuscany,
It's not the pizza, darlin', its my masculine presence.
Joe Morelli
I've never been in love with Marcello [Mastroianni]. I wasn't even attracted to him physically. I admired him. I followed him and supported him, but nothing ever clicked.
When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.
There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.
Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies, but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
Victor Hernandez, like an orchestral conductor directing his troops ...
He was Carmine Marcello DeMarco ... and even broken, he was beautiful.
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.
I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.
Starting today you'll be at Mr. Moretti's beckon call.
The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.
Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
an Italian can never be ignored, least of all when he has a grievance.
Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!
Without Puccini, there is no opera; without opera, the world is an even drearier place than the evening news would have us think.
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.
The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.
People with ambition want Paolo Di Canio.
I think my Italy career is over - it's only right they begin a new era without me. Besides, you have to run a lot under Conte!
Giannine
What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?
I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'
It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show.
The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.
I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.
'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.
Pozzo: I don't seem to be able ... (long hesitation) to depart.
Estragon: Such is life.
The Mob loved Sinatra not just because he was Italian-American, but because he had crossed over into a nether world in which they could never belong. And he got there because he could do something few people in the world could do as well, and no one in the same way: he could sing.
You take every salesman that walks into this shop at his word - why not Gianluca?
Peter Principle
a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.
It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.
Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.
Tomorrow night, I'll be in Giovanni Schiaparelli's favorite hole!
the splendid manhood and womanhood of Italy
He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]
Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.
What kind of name is Paolo, anyway? I mean, this is America, for Pete's sake! YOUR NAME IS PAUL!!!
I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.
He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.
If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.
I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!
I don't mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman [Mussolini].
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.
I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.
Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself ... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.
Dorkangelo" - Marc Hunter
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Daniello, you do not like the bread? Eat! ...per favore, have some pasticcio di gnocchi alla boscaiola!"
"As long as you don't ask me to repeat the name," Dan replied.
Luna Amato chuckled. "Charming boy."
"Handsome, too," Dan said.
You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.
The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
Paolo Maldini is neither a legend nor a world class player!
It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private.
The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.
John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish
Lots of opera singers are just boring.