I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar. — Beverly Sills Caviar 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
I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores. — Beverly Sills Bores Copy Share Image
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. — Beverly Sills Expected 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
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. — Beverly Sills Adversity Copy Share Image
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. — Beverly Sills Doomed Copy Share Image
You see why we play so many crazy ladies. We have to be crazy to start with. — Beverly Sills Crazy Copy Share Image
So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment. — Beverly Sills Experiments Copy Share Image
In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm… — Beverly Sills Best Copy Share Image
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for… — Beverly Sills Anger Copy Share Image
When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally… — Beverly Sills American Copy Share Image
I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at… — Beverly Sills Beginning 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
I think you have to take everything that looks like a blow and turn it into a triumph. This is where my… — Beverly Sills Energy 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
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
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
I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed… — Beverly Sills Feel Copy Share Image
I know that anybody who does all this and doesn't have to, everything thinks she's very driven. The truth is, I enjoy… — Beverly Sills Committed 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
The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before… — Beverly Sills Career Copy Share Image
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on… — Beverly Sills Apprentice 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
“Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.” — Beverly Sills Excess Copy Share Image
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype. — Beverly Sills Devoted Copy Share Image
There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm. — Beverly Sills Feminism Copy Share Image
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
