Andrea Bocelli Quotes

I love to sing with different people.

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may be fresh. For others, it might be just like a comfortable shirt they've been wearing.

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 really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I love to sing with great singers.

It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have the greatest respect, has described performance as a sacred communion between the artist and the composer. But what about the audience? Music is communication, a two-way street.

Our aim is to bring everyone together through BABYMETAL's music.

Andy Timmons is someone I've jammed with many times over the years, and we always have a great chemistry when playing together.

Singing duets is instinctive, intuitive.

I wanted contemporary music to be treated the same as the traditional repertoire - performed regularly by people who knew each other and the music. That is the way you convince an audience.

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.

Performing music live, there's a certain magic to it.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

I feel like so much of what we give on stage is a musical gift to our fans, but we also wanna bring more depth to our shows if we can and do something empowering.

I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going and gets the energy up. You actually get to play off of the other people that are around you.