American - Musician | September 15, 1945 -
I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
Jessye Norman
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I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.
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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.
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I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.
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I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
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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.
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I'm dying always.
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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 that plastic toy.
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I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
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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.
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As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.
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I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.
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