Quotes on Opera Singers

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

I'm completely happy not having children. I mean, everybody does not have to live in the same way. And as somebody said, "Everybody with a womb doesn't have to have a child any more than everybody with vocal cords has to be an opera singer."

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.