Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice. — Beverly Sills Art Copy Share Image
It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them — Beverly Sills Important Copy Share Image
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let… — Beverly Sills Cheerful Copy Share Image
You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious! — Beverly Sills Contagious Copy Share Image
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but… — Beverly Sills Accomplish Copy Share Image
I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on… — Beverly Sills Believe Copy Share Image
Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because… — Beverly Sills Ifs Copy Share Image
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. — Beverly Sills Attachment Copy Share Image
Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started… — Beverly Sills Money Copy Share Image
I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight)… — Beverly Sills Age Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Art Copy Share Image
My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which… — Beverly Sills Effort Copy Share Image
I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o'clock curtain, I was here at… — Beverly Sills Actor Copy Share Image
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's… — Beverly Sills America Copy Share Image
At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I… — Beverly Sills Beginning Copy Share Image
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's… — Beverly Sills Chests Copy Share Image
I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts! — Beverly Sills Blame Copy Share Image
