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I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

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There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.

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One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

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One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

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'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

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I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

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I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It's wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don't realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.

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I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

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Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

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There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 15th, 1945

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