“I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.”

— Luciano Pavarotti

On his charity concerts and relief efforts for Bosnia, in BBC Music Magazine (April 1998)

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Italian operatic tenor 1935–2007

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