Betty Buckley famous quotes

03-28-2025

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
-- Betty Buckley

#Art #Musical #Actors
As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.
-- Betty Buckley

#Voice #Long #Able
Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.
-- Betty Buckley

#Voice #Environment #Concerts
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
-- Betty Buckley

#Teacher #Giving #Technique
If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.
-- Betty Buckley

#Feminist
There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
-- Betty Buckley

#Maintenance #Singers #Corny
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
-- Betty Buckley

#Equality #Race #Giving
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.
-- Betty Buckley

#Believe #Passion #Feminist
When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
-- Betty Buckley

#Opportunity
We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.
-- Betty Buckley

#Heart #Stories #May
My two great loves are music and horses.
-- Betty Buckley

#Horse #Two #Great Love
I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.
-- Betty Buckley

#Song #Two #Towns
I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
-- Betty Buckley

#Girl #Voice #Purpose
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
-- Betty Buckley

#Thinking #Class #White
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.
-- Betty Buckley

#Teacher #Voice #Years
Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
-- Betty Buckley

#Focus #Capacity #Performances
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
-- Betty Buckley

#Feminism #Identity #Way
It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
-- Betty Buckley

#Gratitude #Opportunity #Feminism
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?
-- Betty Buckley

#Bridges #Giving #Feminism
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
-- Betty Buckley

#Rights #People #Feminist
It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
-- Betty Buckley

#Texas #Acres #Littles
Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
-- Betty Buckley

#Teacher #Men #Years

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