I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.
I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be. - Kiri Te Kanawa
I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.
- Kiri Te Kanawa
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment. - Kiri Te Kanawa
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time. - Kiri Te Kanawa
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and th… - Kiri Te Kanawa
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and th…
When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passion… - Kiri Te Kanawa
When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passion…
The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire. - Kiri Te Kanawa
The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.
I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the r… - Kiri Te Kanawa
I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the r…
That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity. - Kiri Te Kanawa
That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.
My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so… - Kiri Te Kanawa
My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so…
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