- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Chord
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a little boy of 3 or 4, I became lame. Something was wrong with my right leg. There are pictures of me being pulled around in a little wagon. The doctors didn't know what to do. So my nanny took me to the miraculous Madonna at Sacro Monte in Varese, the priest blessed me, and I walked.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the premieres, I always watch the audience. If a child asks to go to the bathroom, I know I've failed.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fate has blessed me.
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was my contention that opera can not only pay for itself if it is well given, but it can also command a much wider audience if given like a play with lots of rehearsals and wonderful singers that fit the role.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, all of a sudden, every college and every university has an opera theater. Every little city has its little group.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as deep as you can. This is what I've done.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020