"I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment."

-- Rudolf Bing

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Opera Quotes

“I had everything I need to get me killed.”
“A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”
“I think weâ€™re lied to about a number of things,”
“Youâ€™re my exception,”
“What magic shall solve us the secretOf beauty that's born for an hour?”

Source : Madison Julius Cawein (1907). “Poems of meditation and of forest and field”
“I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.”

Source : "Another side of Amy Ray" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.
“Some things come with their own punishments.”

Source : Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.115, Penguin Books India
“I try hard to be a good Catholic.”

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