Top 27 Beverly Sills Quotes

#1. There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

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#2. Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

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#3. When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

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#4. Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

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#5. As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.

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#6. I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

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#7. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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#8. Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time ... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

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#9. 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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#10. I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

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#11. Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.

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#12. A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

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#13. My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

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#14. I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

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#15. Art is the signature of civilizations.

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#16. You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for ... unless it's contagious!

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#17. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

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#18. A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

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#19. There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

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#20. Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

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#21. Don't get me started on critics.

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#22. Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

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#23. My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

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#24. I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

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#25. There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

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#26. Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

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#27. In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

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