I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.

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• Richard Bonynge:

  I'm very fortunate. I've led a charmed life, I think.

• Richard Bonynge:

  I am one of the luckiest people ever born.

• Richard Bonynge:

  I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in P

• Richard Bonynge:

  I am busy all day long. Never bored - I don't know what the word means.

• Richard Bonynge:

  I go to bed at midnight and get up at 9. I never take a nap. I don't get tired.

• Richard Bonynge:

  Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me as l

• Richard Bonynge:

  You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when t

• Richard Bonynge:

  Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!

• Richard Bonynge:

  When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.

• Richard Bonynge:

  The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important