Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
BEVERLY SILLSI know that anybody who does all this and doesn’t have to, everything thinks she’s very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can’t it be that simple?
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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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I know that anybody who does all this and doesn’t have to, everything thinks she’s very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can’t it be that simple?
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Don’t get me started on critics.
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I never share credit or desserts.
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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
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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.
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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.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
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I think it is! I don’t feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?
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Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
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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.
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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