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Opera Singer Inspirational Quotes (1014)

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Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.
Sophie Arnould
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The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment the former endures forever.
Nellie Melba
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Films are now made by accountants. They pick a pretty young female or male face out of the air and give them a part - not because they think that person is right for it or is ready for it, but because they think that person will make them money.
Christopher Lee
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It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
Jerome Hines
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Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
Linda Ronstadt
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I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
Amy Lee
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Grobanite makes me think of a type of harmless crustacean.
Josh Groban
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Father, I have much to be grateful for tonight and I thank you. I have much to regret and I ask your forgiveness. But even as I ask your forgiveness, I know that I receive it, and a deep peace fills my heart. Help me to sleep well tonight and to wake early ready for that daily yet greatest of gifts, a fresh start.
Avery Brooks
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I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!
Jackie Evancho
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For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens with that. Because if you're not moving forward and you're not evolving, you're devolving, and I don't want to go backwards. I want to be better at what I do tomorrow than I am today. I don't want to be worse.
Audra McDonald
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I pray to be the best thing ever but I also pray that for my colleagues. You're only as good as the person who can distract from what's meant to be happening.
Measha Brueggergosman
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I went to a school that was founded on a lot of very radical ideals of how education should be changed. But what's happening to schools like that sort of all over the country is in economic pressure they're becoming more and more preparatory because that's what people will really pay the money for private schooling for now.
Ezra Miller
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
Beverly Sills
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In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.
Andrea Bocelli
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I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
Kathleen Battle
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Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.
Dolora Zajick
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Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.
Maria Callas
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Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.
Kathleen Battle
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Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
Lesley Garrett
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
Linda Ronstadt
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I have no inhibitions about smoking or drinking, but I think too much of my voice to place it in jeopardy. I have spent many good years in training and cultivating it, and I would be foolish to do anything which might impair or ruin it.
Jeanette MacDonald
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The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.
Christopher Lee
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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
Greg Lake
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There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
Greg Lake
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