Division Quotes by Sarah Caldwell

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

— 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…

— Sarah Caldwell

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera…

— Sarah Caldwell

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

— 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

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Sarah Caldwell

I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Sarah Caldwell

If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Sarah Caldwell