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I am one of the luckiest people ever born.
Richard Bonynge
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The idea is not to have one great singer surrounded by a bunch of nit wits. When the others are good, too, that's when you get something happening in opera.
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I'm very fortunate. I've led a charmed life, I think.
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I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.
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I am busy all day long. Never bored - I don't know what the word means.
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I go to bed at midnight and get up at 9. I never take a nap. I don't get tired.
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Lots of young singers come to me and ask, 'May I sing to you?' I say, 'Yes, you can sing to me as long as you don't mind what I tell you, because I'm not going to flatter you. I'm going to tell you what I think.' Oh, yes, they're quite happy about that, until they hear it.
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You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.
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Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!
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When I started, I'd never had a conducting lesson in my life; I could just do it.
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The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't do than what you can do.
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It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.
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