Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
BEVERLY SILLSI can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It’s become a family ritual.
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I can’t be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
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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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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 don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
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The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.
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I’ve always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.
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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.
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Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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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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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them
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