"Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail." ― Luciano Pavarotti Topic(s): Poetry More From Luciano Pavarotti "In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things." "If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them." "I was an elementary school teacher." More In Poetry "I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry."― Randall Jarrell "Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos."― Andrew Motion "I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on."― Maria Bartiromo