Elisabeth Schwarzkopf famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick.
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Many composers today don't know what the human throat is.
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There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.
-- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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I love the voice - it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.
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Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
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Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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I'm sick of women telling other women what men want them to look like.
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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
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