Bryn Terfel Quotes

#1. Loving someone gives you courage; being loved back gives you strength. -Lao Tzu

Brandon Shire

#2. I work on my voice through what I have to sing.

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#3. So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Robert Walser

#4. Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.

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#5. If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience.

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#6. I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.

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#7. For the mountains shall depart

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#8. We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.

Keith Richards

#9. Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.

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#10. For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

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#11. I started singing because I come from Wales.

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#12. The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still

Peter S. Beagle

#13. When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

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#14. I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

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#15. Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem ...

P.W. Creighton

#16. I feel most ministers who claim they've heard God's voice are eating too much pizza before they go to bed at night, and it's really an intestinal disorder, not a revelation.

Jerry Falwell

#17. People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

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#18. Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

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