Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

- Sarah Caldwell

Tanglewood [summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra] was a place where gods strode the earth.

- Sarah Caldwell

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

- Sarah Caldwell

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

- Sarah Caldwell

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.

- Sarah Caldwell

The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

- Sarah Caldwell

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

- Sarah Caldwell

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

- Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

- Sarah Caldwell