Top 15 Tebaldi Quotes
#1. I admire Tebaldi's tone; it's beautiful - also some beautiful phrasing. Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice.
Maria Callas
#2. I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.
Renee Fleming
#3. Miss Renata Tebaldi was always sweet and very firm ... she had dimples of iron.
Rudolf Bing
#4. How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you 'Mama,' but 'Renata.'
Renata Tebaldi
#5. I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.
Charles Macaulay
#6. I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman.
Renata Tebaldi
#8. The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.
Alan Shepard
#9. Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs get thrown only when people cannot honestly talk together.
Roseanne Barr
#10. I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.
Renata Tebaldi
#12. Definitely my own room," Sully muttered. Mark
Cynthia Eden
#13. I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?
Steve Martin
#14. I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.
Renata Tebaldi
