Top 35 Kathleen Battle Quotes
#1. Oh, I would not want a knight with no dents. It means he has never been to battle, never fought for his honor, the things he believes in, or for sheer survival. Without the dents, sir, I would not trust my knight to be fully human.
Kathleen Bittner Roth
#2. Houses, I have come to believe, like love, like nature herself, should not reassure, should not attempt to soothe, or give comfort, but should, rather, excite.
Patrick McGrath
#3. Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there's really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn't come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.
Maxine Greene
#4. A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious.
David Brazier
#5. I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.
Kathleen Battle
#6. He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began.
Kathleen Koen
#7. Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.
James Lee Burke
#8. Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.
Kathleen Battle
#9. You only get one chance at pure love, otherwise, the rest will be a battle.
Kathleen Harp
#10. I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
Kathleen Battle
#11. When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.
Kathleen Battle
#12. When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of a Jew crucified two thousand years ago who said he was the Son of God. The proof of such an assertion is wanting".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.
Tommy Cotton
#14. Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.
Kathleen Battle
#15. ... we don't love things because they're perfect. We love them for what they are inside, what they represent, the time together, the shared memories represented by our battle scars and flaws.
Kathleen Mix
#16. People are drawn to the spiritual. It has a universal appeal.
Kathleen Battle
#17. In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.
Kathleen Battle
#18. I know. I've got to cover all the bases. I'm going to track down the people Mavis recognized at the victim's house, get statements. I've got to find a table dancer with a big dick and a tattoo." "The fun never ends." She nearly smiled. "I need to find people who
J.D. Robb
#19. Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists.
Kathleen Battle
#20. Would the Element be a car for people who like hip-hop, or for people waiting for a hip-op?
James May
#21. I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.
Kathleen Battle
#22. The question is not ... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
Kathleen Battle
#23. Some of the music I listen to is pop. I sing it in the shower - and then for public consumption.
Kathleen Battle
#24. How will I ever carry out diplomatic missions without someone to throw unpleasant nobles out the window?" "I'll
John Flanagan
#25. How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.
Kathleen Battle
#27. I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.
Shirley Henderson
#28. New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
Kathleen Battle
#29. Life is an intresting journey where the beginning is known,way is a puzzle and the end is unknown
William Shakespeare
#30. From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing up, and that has influenced how I approached classical music. I'm sure of it.
Kathleen Battle
#32. I sing what I sing. And that's recitals and orchestra concerts. To appease - no, that's not the right word - let's say to satisfy - any opera urgings that my public has, I'll put in an aria.
Kathleen Battle
#33. I'm an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I'm always looking to extend the boundaries.
Ai Weiwei
#34. We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
Thomas B. Macaulay
#35. What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie.
'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes.
'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off the face of the world with this withering remark.
Angela Thirkell
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