Montserrat Caballe Quotes

#1. - Who would carry the bell canto
- Of course Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

#2. 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.

Montserrat Caballe

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

Montserrat Caballe

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

Montserrat Caballe

#5. ... 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

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

Montserrat Caballe

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

Montserrat Caballe

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

Montserrat Caballe

#9. 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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#10. 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

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

Montserrat Caballe

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

W. Edwards Deming

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

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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. 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

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

Samar Sudha

#17. 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

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

Montserrat Caballe

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

Grenville Kleiser

#20. Hey, Carrots," he says.

Cynthia Hand

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

Wallace Stegner

#22. 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

#23. 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.

Montserrat Caballe

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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