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Opera Singer Inspirational Quotes (1014)

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A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.
Renee Fleming
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I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.
Renee Fleming
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Philosophy changes day by day.
Sarah Brightman
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Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.
Luciano Pavarotti
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Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.
Alfredo Kraus
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It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.
Andrea Bocelli
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I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.
Kiri Te Kanawa
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Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
Beverly Sills
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Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.
Katherine Jenkins
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You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.
Marian Anderson
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I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.
Montserrat Caballe
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Luciano Pavarotti
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One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
Lesley Garrett
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It's important for me who is at the table with me the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.
Andrea Bocelli
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I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.
Amy Lee
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
Leontyne Price
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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
Nelson Eddy
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We must make our lives as we sew, stitch by stitch.
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.
Renee Fleming
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If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Nellie Melba
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Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.
Linda Ronstadt
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Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.
Marian Anderson
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I have had the good fortune of being able to sing with many of the finest voices in the world, and for someone who loves voices as I do, this is an enormous privilege.
Andrea Bocelli
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I just wanted a change. My hair started hurting my back, so I went to my hairdresser and said 'Take it off.' And I'm delighted with the results.
Sarah Brightman
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