Home Quotes by Leontyne Price

Momma was home. She was the most totally human, human being that I have ever known, and so very beautiful. Within our home, she…

— Leontyne Price

For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even…

— Leontyne Price

All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be…

— Leontyne Price

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

— Leontyne Price

Once you get on stage, everything is right. I feel the most beautiful, complete, fulfilled. I think that's why, in the case of noncompromising…

— Leontyne Price

... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my…

— Leontyne Price

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.

— Leontyne Price

We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative…

— Leontyne Price

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

— Leontyne Price

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

— Leontyne Price

If you're not feeling good about you, what you're wearing outside doesn't mean a thing.

— Leontyne Price

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

— Leontyne Price