For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, ‘The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are.
BETTY BUCKLEYThere’s a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
More Betty Buckley Quotes
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Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60’s to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
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The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
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Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies.
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There’s a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
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The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
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When there’s an opportunity to do more, we must.
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As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.
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The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.
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I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
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My two great loves are music and horses.
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
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It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
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It’s just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it’s not a thousand acres, it’s considered a ranchette.
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