Quotes by Leontyne Price - Page 1

Be black, shine, aim high.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Aim High
Black History
Shining
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Accomplishments have no color.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Motivational
Accomplishment
Color
Accomplishments
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Who I am is the best I can be.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Appreciation
Inspirational
Smile
Acceptance
Who I Am
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A healthy sex life. Best thing in the world for a woman's voice.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Healthy
Sex
Voice
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I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
American Woman
I Am The Best
Knows
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Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Inspirational
Midnight
Oil
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I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Guests
Party
Well Mannered
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If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Life
Feel Good
Mean
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The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Life
Success
Time
Giving
Luxury
Successful
Ultimate
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If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Enjoy
Heaven
Sake
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You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Gears
Shifting
Life Always Your
Leave
Era
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You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Eras
Inspirational Life
Shifting
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I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Given
Singing
Taught
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For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Beautiful
Long
Singing
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Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Art
Buttons
Oil
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I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Color
Hair
Justice
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The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
America
Black
Taught
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... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Art
Race
Voice
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We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Art
Country
Usa
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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Diversity
Ease
Justice
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If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Positive
Beautiful
Thinking
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Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she was an abundance of love, discipline, fun, affection, strength, tenderness, encouragement, understanding, inspiration, support.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Daughter
Encouragement
Beautiful
Mother
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Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising career women, parts of our personal lives don't work out. One person can't give you the feeling that thousands of people give you.
Leontyne Price / Soprano
Beautiful
Careers
Thinking
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