"A singer starts by having his instrument as……" — Marian Anderson
"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy."
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25 Quotes by Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson has 25 quotes on this site.
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the…
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You lose a lot of time, hating people.
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I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear…
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Prejudice: Sometimes it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers,…
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If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can…
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Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment.…
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others…
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None of us is responsible for the...
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When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see…
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When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
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I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never…
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