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Choose One Chair

Oct 18, 2007
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From an Article About Luciano Pavarotti

The great Italian opera tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, who died one week ago, on September 6th, said that when he was a boy, his father, a baker, introduced him to the wonders of song, and urged him to work hard to develop his voice. Pavarotti took his father's advice, but he also enrolled in a teacher's college. Upon graduation he asked his father, "Shall I be a teacher or a singer?"

"Luciano," his father replied, "if you try to sit on two chairs, you will fall between them. For life, you must choose one chair."

Pavarotti said, "I chose one. It took seven years of study and frustration before I made my first professional appearance. It took another seven to reach the Metropolitan Opera. And now I think whether it's laying bricks, writing a book--whatever we choose--we should give ourselves to it."

Source: http://rorysrambles.blogspot.com

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