“I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I...” — Marcello Giordani Quote

“I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.”

“The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don't have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.”

“I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.”

“I try to steal something from the great singers. Of course, I don't want to imitate their sound, but I try to do a sort of compromise.”

“Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different peoples who have settled there: Arabs, Greeks, Normans, the Swedes. That has made us different from others. We exaggerate, we overdo. We love Greek tragedy. We cry, we fight, sometimes for nothing.”

“To me, finding sounds, or even recording, is a compositional process. The studio is kind of an instrument.”

“I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.”

“When you start running out of things to do on a guitar, you have to find other ways of making music with your instrument.”

“My dad played a little bit of piano and guitar, but not that professionally. I saw him play, and I said, 'I want to play. I want to try this instrument.'”

“When I got to high school, to be playing an instrument was really uncool.”

“The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.”