You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.

- Marilyn Horne

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

- Marilyn Horne

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people …

- Marilyn Horne

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren.

- Marilyn Horne

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

- Marilyn Horne

I think I'm making a difference for a lot of young singers.

- Marilyn Horne

Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a litt…

- Marilyn Horne

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

- Marilyn Horne