Joan Sutherland Quotes

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• I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.
• If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely…
• I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.
• I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've…
• You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
• I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when…
• Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you…
• But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as…
• One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.
• My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.
• All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people
• The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.
• I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school…

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