Montserrat Caballe Quotes

#1. My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. Proponents of the new and defenders of the old can't merely discuss the transition, because each group has systematic biases that make its overall vision untrustworthy;

Anonymous

#3. And deferring always to the desires of others, he finds that they are glad to defer to him. Lovingly firm and graciously gentle, he is the chief of all because he is the servant of all. Does

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

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#5. I never really got into 'The Munsters' that much, but there was one aspect that was compelling. That was Marilyn. She was the only normal one among this group of creatures.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#6. Habit is my true, my wedded wife.

Wallace Stegner

#7. Hey, Carrots," he says.

Cynthia Hand

#8. Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Grenville Kleiser

#9. I am not a person who can do nothing. I get very bored.

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#10. Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.

Isabel Allende

#11. Clean your Tongue with your Words, not with tongue cleaner

Samar Sudha

#12. Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.

Walter Kirn

#13. You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.

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#14. A lovely little wooden cottage in the depths of a forest is the most beautiful palace a king or any man can ever have!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.

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#16. You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.

W. Edwards Deming

#17. The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

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#18. Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Madeline Kahn

#19. If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

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#20. The sound of a mother's voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.

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#21. I've received many awards, but I'm most proud of the ones for my country's music.

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Maria Callas

#23. When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

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#24. ... said them for my benefit as much as hers [daughter]. "Honey, it's okay to want things we don't have, but we also need to remember what we do have. If we are going to compare ourselves to those who have more, we must also compare ourselves to those who have less.

Kristen Welch

#25. Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?

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#26. A soprano's voice is a little like a mother's cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.

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