The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally, and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.
My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline. - Jessye Norman
My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.
- Jessye Norman
The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop qu… - Jessye Norman
The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop qu…
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. - Jessye Norman
Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. - Jessye Norman
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to thi… - Jessye Norman
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to thi…
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents. - Jessye Norman
A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experienc… - Jessye Norman
There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experienc…
I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing. - Jessye Norman
I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more. - Jessye Norman
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
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