Nellie Melba Quotes

#1. One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

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#2. Do everything yourself.

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#3. If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

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#4. If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

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#5. There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

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#6. You won't be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don't worry! It's a good sign!

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#7. The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

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#8. Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

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#9. What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

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#10. Always sing below your potential.

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