Top 66 Sondra Quotes
#1. Being in love is highly overrated.
book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#3. You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#4. I tell young singers not to listen to themselves. What I hear is not what you hear.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#5. You have to be in tune with your body and know when your body is saying, 'That's enough, you're done for the day.' If you over-fatigue and are totally stressed, you get sick. And if I get sick, I can't work.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#8. When I was signing up for the University of Southern California's music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute - tails would be voice.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#9. Answering the call of God is not something we do after details have been laid out. Nor is it something we do because others want us to do it. It's something we do because we know it's right. Because we love Him.
Sondra Kraak
#10. Opera - above and beyond anything else - is about the music, and it should be about the music.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#12. Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#13. People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#14. I'm not doing anything that hasn't been done before, you know...dying, it's been done to death.
Sondra Lynn
#15. I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#16. We live in a very disposable society, and people want everything right away, but unfortunately, vocal technique doesn't come overnight.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#17. Hidden inside every flower are seeds of imagination, destiny and future dreams.
Sondra Faye
#18. I'm going to the gym and really taking care of myself and trying to stay fit, eating properly.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#19. I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know?
Sondra Radvanovsky
#20. You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.
Ben Mendelsohn
#21. I absolutely love Canada, and I wouldn't live anywhere else. It's half American and half European, and I really enjoy that. And the people are just fantastic - nicer than any people in the world.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#22. Sometimes you feel fragile for a few days. Don't let the PaperTigers scare you; you will bounce back & be brave again.
From book: stuff i think about
by sondra faye
Sondra Faye
#23. I only want to be famous to my friends.
book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#25. If I can transport audiences for the three or four hours they're at the opera, to make them forget all of their worries, the bills they have to pay and all that, then I've done my job. That, for me, is very gratifying.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#26. When I teach master classes, I tell young singers if the foundation isn't good, the house will crumble.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#27. When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#28. When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#30. surrender is giving up control bt nt lossing power
Sondra Ray
#33. I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the chorus of our regional opera company.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#35. I think Chicagoans have a great set of values. You know what I mean? Kindness. Morals. Ethics. People in Chicago do the right thing. If somebody falls on the street, someone will actually stop and help them up. That doesn't happen in certain other cities.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#36. HD is not forgiving. Once you see your face for the first time in a movie cinema, you run straight to the gym.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#37. When had his heart ever felt this full? There were no words. That was the problem. He loved her with speechlessness.
Sondra Kraak
#38. I think the power of opera has been shifted from the music to the director, because this is a very visual age that we live in.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#39. You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#40. Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#42. It takes a loyal gardener to tend roses.
Sondra Faye
#43. I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?
Sondra Radvanovsky
#44. Opera tells stories that all ages can relate to: love, death, revenge, etc.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#46. A true friend knows when to give advice and when to just listen.
"stuff I think about" book by Sondra Faye
Sondra Faye
#50. I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#52. It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#53. I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#54. Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#55. The vocal cords are a muscle, and like any other muscle in the body, they can be strained. So you have to warm up.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#56. What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#57. I am so proud to call myself Canadian! Thank you, Canada, for welcoming me with open arms!
Sondra Radvanovsky
#58. Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#59. When you follow the path of the unknown, you never know what you may find.
tv show- UFOs Really?
Sondra Faye
#60. Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#62. When I am on the opera stage, I am playing someone else. In recitals, I even have the chance to talk to the audience, which is something you don't get to do in opera.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#63. As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.
Sondra Perl
#64. Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.
from the book: stuff i think about
Sondra Faye
#65. She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen
Sondra Torres
#66. Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
Sondra Kraak
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