Jessye Norman quotes

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life! (Jessye Norman)
I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset. View quote
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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. View quote
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Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension. View quote
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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. View quote
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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. View quote
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A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more. View quote
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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. View quote
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I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing. (Jessye Norman)
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. View quote
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It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen. View quote
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Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade. View quote
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'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. View quote
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I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Jessye Norman