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Opera Singer Inspirational Quotes (1014)

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At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.
Renee Fleming
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Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
Amy Lee
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Sometimes pianists try to sound like singers: me personally, I try to sound like a Bösendorfer.
Placido Domingo
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Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.
Andrea Bocelli
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I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
Jessye Norman
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You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise.
Andrea Bocelli
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I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.
Hayley Westenra
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For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.
Ezra Miller
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I speak to God every day.
Andrea Bocelli
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Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.
Linda Ronstadt
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I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.
Andrea Bocelli
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I am old, I am fat, but I am still Tetrazzini.
Luisa Tetrazzini
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I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.
Amy Lee
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I'm not superstitious because it brings bad luck.
Placido Domingo
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We're only as sick as the secrets we keep.
Maria Nemeth
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I thought that people should know about the dangers of Satanism, and diabolism does exist - there's no question about it.
Christopher Lee
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We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.
Tom Krause
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I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.
Greg Lake
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I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.
Ezra Miller
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Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.
Linda Ronstadt
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I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.
Lesley Garrett
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Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
Ezra Miller
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You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
Werner Klemperer
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I don't use my lips. I use my tongue to make - create the vowels.
Dolora Zajick
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