American - Musician | May 25, 1929 - July 2, 2007
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills
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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.
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I began by listening to my mother's collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!
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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 the beginning of an opera or after somebody else has been doing an aria, and you want to get a good fresh start.
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My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.
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At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it.
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There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
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Art is the signature of civilizations.
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In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international career without the Metropolitan. I'm the only singer who's done that, and I'm proud of that, so it's all worked out for the best.
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