My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

- Jessye Norman

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

- 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

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

- 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…

- Jessye Norman

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

- Jessye Norman

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

- Jessye Norman

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

- 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…

- Jessye Norman