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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
I have never felt like a diva!
I never share credit or desserts.
Always sing below your potential.
Lots of opera singers are just boring.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?
There is no short cut to a place worth going.
When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.
I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.
You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.
Drama if I sing, drama if I dont sing. What do you do?
I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.
Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?
There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.
There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.
I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
I don't share blame. I don't share credit. And I don't share desserts.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.
I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.
You see why we play so many crazy ladies. We have to be crazy to start with.
I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
First, love to the family. Second, love to career. Third, love to the audience.
I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.
You should not starve yourself with stupid diets, which I don't believe in anyway.
We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.
What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?
Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.
The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war.
In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.
Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.
I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!
A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.
Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.
Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.
There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.
