Joan Sutherland Quotes

#1. Such is the irony of life on earth; that living in extreme simplicity free from indulgence turns this persecuted Middle Eastern fatherless carpenter, into the definition of vivacity, and one of the most recognized names in the world.

Sayed Mahdi Modarresi

#2. By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December - it numbered fewer than 10,000 effectives. It was a disaster from which he would never recover.

Saul David

#3. I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

Joan Sutherland

#4. All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

Joan Sutherland

#5. I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

Deborah Bull

#6. Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

Lauren DeStefano

#8. One could simply say it's a legitimate fear-response, a reasonable and deeply internalized reaction to a shrinking economic pie.

Jennifer Senior

#9. The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

Joan Sutherland

#10. Half is done when the beginning is done.

Horace

#11. If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

Joan Sutherland

#12. The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

Stanley Kunitz

#13. I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

Joan Sutherland

#14. I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

Redd Foxx

#15. Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

Joan Sutherland

#16. I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

Joan Sutherland

#17. I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

Joan Sutherland

#18. My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

Joan Sutherland

#19. mixture to cool slightly and

Dinah Bucholz

#20. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

Joan Sutherland

#21. Don't let the worries of this foolish world destroy your joy in living.

Marty Rubin

#22. Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

Joni Mitchell

#23. One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

Joan Sutherland

#24. I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

Joan Sutherland