Anna Netrebko famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Russians always need a little sh*t in our lives. If everything is good and we seem completely happy, then we become suspicious of that.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Needs #Littles
I have an intuition, and usually my intuition is right. I have a feeling for whether a role will be good or bad for me, and I almost never make a mistake.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Mistake #Feelings #Intuition
When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Teacher #Moving #Want
I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Support #Doe #Sometimes
I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. Its not the diva speaking. Its the artist who knows how it has to be done.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Artist #Light #Needs
Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Sweet #Nice #Dark
Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Beautiful #Home #Thinking
Lots of opera singers are just boring.
-- Anna Netrebko

#Opera #Singers #Boring

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending â€“ sweet or sour â€“ and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

Anna Netrebko famous quotes

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