Long before the dawn of history, long before he could sing or even speak, man danced.
Gene KellyThat's Dancing! (film), 1985
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Return to the past and it will be progress.
Original (Italian): Tornate all'antico e sarà un progresso.
Giuseppe VerdiLetter to Francesco Florimo, 5 January 1871
I have always tried to learn to listen, certain that this music in particular, like a language, speaks to us of our time, our history and ourselves.
Original (Italian): Ho cercato sempre di imparare ad ascoltare, nella certezza che questa musica in particolare, come un linguaggio, ci parli del nostro tempo, della nostra storia e di noi.
Claudio AbbadoLa casa dei suoni (Babalibri), p. 45, 2007
On becoming the first Italian woman to conduct at La Scala
You think, it's so huge, who am I to stand here? And that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a woman. I just felt so humbled by the whole situation.
Speranza ScappucciInterview with Mark Pullinger, Bachtrack, 17 March 2026
In fact, what I'm doing is entering tradition, what I'm doing is finally respecting the tradition.
Peter SellarsBill Moyers' World of Ideas, 18 March 1990
I remember when I began singing, in 1961, one person said, 'run quick, because opera is going to have at maximum 10 years of life.'
Luciano PavarottiOpera News, 1998 (quoted in The New York Times, 7 September 2007)