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Beverly Sills
American
Musician
Born:
May 25
,
1929
Died:
Jul 2
,
2007
Because
Career
Me
Think
Time
You
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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
I love Massenet - 'Manon' had been a wonderful role for me - and the music he wrote for 'Thais' is quite enjoyable and not terribly demanding in a vocal sense.
Beverly Sills
Love
Music
Me
Wonderful
Demanding
Sense
Vocal
Had
He
Wrote
Terribly
Been
Role
Quite
Enjoyable
Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.
Beverly Sills
People
Money
Made
Nation
Rich
Way
Case
Opera
Became
Isolated
Lot
Texas
Very
Did
Same
Oil
Regions
Popular
Fast
Started
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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