"There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career."

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Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

Lesley Garrett

#Successful Quotes #Careers Quotes #Singing Quotes

“PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.”
“I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.”
“My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.”

Source : "Resistance is useless" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2002.
“Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.”
“At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.”
“I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.”
“The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.”

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