The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
BEVERLY SILLSWhen you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
-
-
My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can’t.
BEVERLY SILLS -
It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
BEVERLY SILLS -
Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
BEVERLY SILLS -
The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
BEVERLY SILLS -
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
BEVERLY SILLS -
Art is the signature of civilizations.
BEVERLY SILLS -
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLS -
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
BEVERLY SILLS -
I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
BEVERLY SILLS -
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn’t matter.
BEVERLY SILLS -
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLS -
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
BEVERLY SILLS -
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 -
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
BEVERLY SILLS -
I never share credit or desserts.
BEVERLY SILLS