"Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice."

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Source : "Beverly: An Autobiography". Book by Lawrence Linderman, 1987.

Beverly Sills

#Art Quotes #Voice Quotes #Excess Quotes

“Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom”
“Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may sayÂ it has never yet returned-you cannot say thatÂ it will not. It is blasphemy to say a bit of metal has destroyed life, just as it is presumptuous to say that because life has disappeared it has been destroyed. I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew-no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”

Source : Robert Leckie (2015). “Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]”, p.301, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.”
“Your ability needs responsibility to expose its possibilities. Do what you can with what you have where you are.”
“What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.”
“Trusting God is the answer. He will never let you down.”
“Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.”
“Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".”

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