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All Quotes by author - Jessye Norman
" A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents. "
Person
Right
Think
" 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. "
Voice
Things
Sing
" I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. "
Am
Grateful
Horizons
" I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life. "
Think
School
Life
" I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music. "
Find
Music
Preparation
" If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live. "
Live
Yourself
Time
" I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. "
Word
Am
I Am
" 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. "
Reading
Us
Support
" I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range. "
Music
Different
Like
" I'm dying always. "
Dying
Always
" I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that to be central and very, very helpful. I think if you're not really cognizant of what every single word means, I think that might be a little tricky. "
Pretend
Think
Find
" I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing, first of all, my operatic debut in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was West Berlin at the time. "
First
Lucky
Sing
" 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. "
Woman
Power
More
" 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. "
People
Colleagues
Body
" It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen. "
Person
Community
Child
" I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing. "
Walk
Mile
Without
" I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more. "
Exploring
Want
More
" I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before. "
Sing
More
Done
" 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. "
Age
Child
Doctor
" One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. "
Ambition
Talent
Success
" One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA. "
Reading
Child
Morning
" Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. "
Balance
Yourself
You
" 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. "
Kindness
Wise
Wisdom
" 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. "
Time
Caring
Political
" There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger. "
Long Time
Long
Dress
" There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing. "
Spiritual
Dream
God
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