11 Beverly Sills Quotes for You to Enjoy

Beverly Sills

American Musician

Born: May 25, 1929

Died: Jul 2, 2007

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills

You Try Fail Disappointed May Doomed

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. Beverly Sills

Woman Happy Down Cares Cheerful Get Them Who Her

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Beverly Sills

Strength Women Forehead Growing

I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time. That's fine at the beginning of an opera or after somebody else has been doing an aria, and you want to get a good fresh start. Beverly Sills

Time Good You Somebody Singing Fresh Start Beginning Else Has-Been Fine Through Aria Never Opera Fresh Doing Been Get Nose So Much Time Want After Breathe Much Start

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't. Beverly Sills

Dignity Long Every Once Out See Voice Had Put Bed Still Nonstop Quiet While Used Deserves Career

You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'd all sound alike. I don't think anybody should ever teach by imitating. Beverly Sills

You Think Imitate Otherwise Imitating Our Alike Vocal Vocal Cords Faces Constructed Sound Anybody Should Teach Ever Differently Cords

At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it. Beverly Sills

Experience Thought Girl Beginning Thirty Say Willing Criticize Fine Adored Take Feel Singer Doing Years Role Did Going Oh Heck Ask Then Who Even

When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about. Beverly Sills

Director Singing Practice Finally Projecting City About General Could Know Opera Audiences Were Pioneers American American Audiences

My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer. Beverly Sills

Nature Me Cancer Desperate Parents Papa About Never He Contain Undergo Operations Spread Were His Effort Which Lung

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