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There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

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It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

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I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

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I'm dying always.

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I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

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I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

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As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

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I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: September 15th, 1945

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