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Opera Singer Inspirational Quotes (1014)

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The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
Lesley Garrett
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I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I'm a bit of a monster freak.
Silvia Colloca
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I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.
Emmy Rossum
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Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'
Christopher Lee
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Beverly Sills
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If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.
Mary Garden
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Among the important realizations I had in my own days in the practice room was that if any one route to any one phrase didn't work after days of trying, then the exact opposite route should at least be explored, as well as every alternative in between, as counterintuitive as that often seemed.
Renee Fleming
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I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.
Emmy Rossum
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Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.
Jose Carreras
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While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every turn, examined.
Renee Fleming
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You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.
Thomas Quasthoff
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I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.
Andrea Bocelli
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It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.
Andrea Bocelli
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Like stars across the sky, we were born to shine.
Andrea Bocelli
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I have three grandchildren and am hoping for 20.
Maureen Forrester
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As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?
Greg Lake
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Sometimes a musical imagination is as important as singing itself, you know, the voice, what you do vocally, the vowels. So there's a percussiveness that can sometimes be quite energizing and useful in singing as an expressive device.
Dolora Zajick
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Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
Luciano Pavarotti
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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
Linda Ronstadt
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The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Andrea Bocelli
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Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.
Audra McDonald
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Belief is a choice. Not everyone is going to love Jesus. I'm not asking them to. I'm not asking them to come on the same spectrum as me. No matter where you fall on the faith spectrum, the spiritual can instill a sense of hope in you that's undeniable. The spiritual doesn't ask you to believe any one thing. It just opens you up.
Measha Brueggergosman
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I want to get out of the major opera houses.
Renee Fleming
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When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.
Josh Groban
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