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I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
Women give themselves to God when the devil wants nothing more to do with them.
When I did not become enemies, then I understand that there was nothing standing.
I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.
You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.
The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.
I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.
Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides.
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.
Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]
It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.
We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.
I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
I generally prefer to stay quiet before a performance. I don't like television cameras, but an interview is OK.
I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.
I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.
It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.
If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.
I used to suffer from a lot of regret while touring. Regret at having to leave certain places, people and situations, or just a beautiful day.
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.