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Soprano Inspirational Quotes (55)

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Sometimes we depersonalize people who we don't agree with or who we see as targets for hatred. If you think of anything as having a mother, that's going to change everything. All of us have mothers and came from a womb. Buddha says you can't hate anything you understand.
Measha Brueggergosman
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I've always hid behind the music despite the fact that I have a huge personality. I'm thrilled that the music is bigger than me and will outlive and outlast me. It frees me up to take risks.
Measha Brueggergosman
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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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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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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 remember when I finally figured out how simple one aspect of singing was, and I looked at my voice teacher and I said, is that all it is? And he put his head on the piano keys, and he said, why do I do this to myself?
Dolora Zajick
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You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it
Marilyn Horne
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Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
Benita Valente
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My mother was my best friend and confidante.
Renata Tebaldi
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I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
Leontyne Price
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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.
Leontyne Price
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Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it.
Benita Valente
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For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .
Lotte Lehmann
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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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Singers are experts at keeping things from dripping on their throats. Believe me, they're experts.
Dolora Zajick
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The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
Maria Jeritza
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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
Lotte Lehmann
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Singing is connected to the body. So there's a - there's a depth in the body that's necessary to perform this kind of music. And a lot of that expression comes from a kinesthetic awareness. And it's - that's one thing that I think people identify with, and of course there's the moment that you're in.
Dolora Zajick
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I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.
Renata Tebaldi
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It is particularly challenging looking how I look, but I think of my beautiful, swirled-up babies and I think, You know what? I will be an example for you. I believe you can set the tone for any room or any conversation by being the first one to lead with love.
Measha Brueggergosman
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The best advice I can give a young aspiring singer is not to become an old aspiring singer.
Renata Scotto
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I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San Francisco are free.
Luisa Tetrazzini
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Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.
Lotte Lehmann
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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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