Song Quotes by Montserrat Caballe

I have never felt like a diva!

— Montserrat Caballe

I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.

— Montserrat Caballe

Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.

— Montserrat Caballe

You see, God has blessed me - I don't know how else to say it - with a beautiful sound.

— Montserrat Caballe

Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.

— Montserrat Caballe

I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.

— Montserrat Caballe

If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

— Montserrat Caballe

I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

— Montserrat Caballe

I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.

— Montserrat Caballe

I have many that wants to, let's say, marry me. But I always tell my mother that the day I have to ask myself,…

— Montserrat Caballe

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

— Montserrat Caballe

I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.

— Montserrat Caballe

The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

— Montserrat Caballe

Nothing special, I have not a special talent. I have been born with a sound, and I like music and try to serve it,…

— Montserrat Caballe

I try in roles like Salome to sing earthily, but it comes out as sweet-earthy. You know, it's like when someone has a beautiful…

— Montserrat Caballe