Lesley Garrett Quotes
- I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.
- Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
- I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
- I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind.
- As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always…
- I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera…
- I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
- I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.
- Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.
- And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.
- I do a lot of vocal hygiene.
- It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have…
- I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.
- I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
- Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
- One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk…
- Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
- The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
- What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it…
- There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.