Sal Da Vinci

"Naples is a family. It has given me more than I have given it. I stayed there because I didn't want to break the visceral bond that has developed over the years. I was born artistically in my city, and the public has always supported me with great affection and closeness. Naples is a city suspended between the sacred and the profane, where colours mix with pain, where tomorrow is so unpredictable, where every time Napoli wins, it feels like redemption for the people."

"I believe that love changes everything around you, love for anything, your job, any dream. Never break it, never."

"My career has been marked by hard work, without which I would not be here today. I've had more failures than successes, but every time I got back up. It's been an incredible journey, made up of dreams that sometimes shattered and sometimes came halfway to fruition. I wrote melodies and songs that then, thanks to my collaborators, became real recording projects, with arrangements and productions that gave rise to important numbers and a solid career."

"Sal Da Vinci's Naples today, like Mario Merola's Naples yesterday, represents a stereotype that has little to do with Neapolitan culture. It is a heart-wrenching, emphatic, consolatory attitude: love forever, I promise you before God... It seems to me to be a step backwards not only compared to Quanno chiove, but also compared to Nel blu dipinto di blu. Modugno was from Puglia, even though he was considered Sicilian, but he was still an artist from the South; and the song with which he won Sanremo in 1958 was very popular and very modern. Unfortunately, we cannot say the same about Sal Da Vinci."

"Sal Da Vinci sings things I don't like, but I like him and I like his songs that I don't listen to."