Beverly Sills Quotes

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

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.

Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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.

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?

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.