Jessye Norman Quotes

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• Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
• As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo…
• The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave…
• If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find…
• Pigeon-holes are only comfortable for pigeons.
• I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.
• I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through…
• A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.
• I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
• I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
• I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
• I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
• I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've…
• It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.
• One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.
• There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.
• There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that…
• I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I…
• I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light,…
• I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

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