There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
BEVERLY SILLSOpera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time…
More Beverly Sills Quotes
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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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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When you’re in love, the whole world is Jewish.
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There is no short cut to a place worth going.
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I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.
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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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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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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
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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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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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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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Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
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I never share credit or desserts.
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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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There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
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