Quotes by Opera Singers

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.
Leontyne Price
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
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
Jessye Norman
I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do.
Mary Garden
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Beverly Sills
Who I am is the best I can be.
Leontyne Price
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills
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
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
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Nellie Melba
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
Beverly Sills
You know what you do when you shit singing is the same thing only up!
Enrico Caruso
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
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
If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia-I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.
Nellie Melba
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
Beverly Sills
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
You know what you do when you shit singing is the same thing only up!
Enrico Caruso
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era it should never leave you.
Leontyne Price
There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.
Martina Arroyo
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.
Beverly Sills
Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.
Nellie Melba
You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
I'm not happy I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.
Beverly Sills
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting but that doesn't matter.
Beverly Sills
Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.
Luciano Pavarotti
Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.
Leontyne Price
You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Maria Callas
break all the rules and you'll do just fine
Ana Christy
You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann
Lotte Lehmann
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.
Renée Fleming
One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
Luciano Pavarotti
Honest but gentle communication from the beginning is key.
Cheryl Barker
The first time you see your grown-up little miss looking back at you from a sea of white chiffon or beaded satin glory, indeed your heart will skip a beat. You’ll find yourself blinking back tears. That elusive someday has suddenly become now. Your little girl—your jewel—is going to be a bride.
Cheryl Barker
Let go of your daughter with grace and you'll find her calling on you with joy.
Cheryl Barker
You’ve spent her whole life holding her. Whether cradled in your arms as a baby or wrapped in your embrace as a young woman, she’s been yours to have and to hold, Mother of the Bride—until now. Now the time has come to let her go, to let herbegin her own family and pledge her allegiance to another.
Cheryl Barker
The only times she ever felt at peace now were at his concerts. Then she could sit quietly, watching him, and sate her heart. In his music was where he lived and revived, and where she'd first loved him. And she knew, always, always when she was there, that he played for her.
Vivien Shotwell
They were strong singers, with swift minds and open good humor--arrogant enough to think they could stand on a stage and dogged enough to have done the work to get there.
Vivien Shotwell
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti
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.
Maria Callas
Kau yakin kau sudah mengecek rias wajahmu? Matamu kelihatan seperti mata panda.
Francisca Todi
Wanita cerdas bisa menghadapi cecunguk mana pun dengan anggun.
Francisca Todi
Mungkin kau harus berhenti memedulikan apa kata orang tentang dirimu.
Francisca Todi
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills