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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Civilizations
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is the signature of civilizations.
- Growing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
- Motivational
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm the only singer who's done that, and I'm proud of that, so it's all worked out for the best.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two strongest points. I've always been a people person. I love people; I like to be with people, and when I got on stage, I was home free.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn't that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn't wait for it to begin.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Massenet - 'Manon' had been a wonderful role for me - and the music he wrote for 'Thais' is quite enjoyable and not terribly demanding in a vocal sense.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I'm sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020