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Jessye Norman
American
Musician
Born:
Sep 15
,
1945
Love
Music
People
Think
Time
You
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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.
Jessye Norman
Time
You
Strange
Yourself
People
Weather
Live
Every
Think
Every Time
Air
Way
Out
Find
About
Something
Put
Thumb
Limit
Up
Very
Send
Going
Different
Want
Your
Strange Way
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
Jessye Norman
Learning
More
Doing
Want
Exploring
Keep
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
Jessye Norman
Life
Friendship
Art
Good
Spiritual
Joy
Light
Long
Live
Universe
Back
Those
Make
Shed
Am
Itself
Tune
Place
Little
Help
Deeply
Things
I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris.
Jessye Norman
Time
Great
World
Church
Singing
Nothing
Spent
Paris
Feel
Like
Cathedrals
Looks
Course
Comfortable
Because
Very
Child
Quite
So Much Time
Different
Much
Notre Dame
Dame
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.
Jessye Norman
Heart
Age
Doctor
About
Given
Could
Through
Beating
Bag
Toy
Hear
Child
Six
Loved
Plastic
I am not one to equate dress size and artistic performance.
Jessye Norman
Dress
Performance
Equate
Am
Artistic
Size
There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions would be rare - that one would feel that one is a channel, and there have been some occasions when it seemed as though I was standing outside of myself watching and listening to myself sing.
Jessye Norman
Myself
Good
Human Being
Listening
Rare
Think
Channel
Though
Would
Would-Be
Some
Seemed
Outside
Feel
Sing
Occasions
Been
Very
Any
Human
Being
Standing
Watching
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.
Jessye Norman
Life
Friendship
Reading
Correspondence
Thread
Life Lessons
Mahler
Through
Support
Between
Most
Particularly
Genuine
Richard
Us
Communications
Lessons
Enjoyed
Competitiveness
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.
Jessye Norman
Dramatic
Considered
Way
Range
Would
Would-Be
Voice
Like
Sing
Because
Cannot
Things
Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.
Jessye Norman
Love
Education
Time
First
Community
Enjoy
Though
About
Brown
Something
Segregated
Along
First Grade
Protected
Schools
Talking
Course
Came
Up
Grade
Grew
After
Board
Loving
Really
Even
Growing
Growing Up
'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.
Jessye Norman
Wisdom
Kindness
Wise
Book
Reading
Every
Visiting
Poems
Mary
Prose
Welcoming
Friend
Very
Swan
Page
Oliver
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.
Jessye Norman
Love
Morning
Library
Joy
Events
First
Reading
Take
New
Up
Child
York
New York
Being
Public
Public Library
Reasons
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Saturday
Saturday Morning
Second
My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.
Jessye Norman
Work
Good
Daily
Parents
Else
Earth
Would
Simply
Practically
Said
Were
Order
Anyone
Anyone Else
Us
Show
Daily Basis
Harder
Basis
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.
Jessye Norman
Love
Christmas
Me
Book
People
Language
Sit
Other
Everything
John
See
Some
John Grisham
Angelou
Poems
Given
Mary
Particular
French
Genre
Read
How
German
Maya Angelou
Just
Use
English
Whole
Novel
Oliver
I'm a sloucher, sort of, when nobody's looking.
Jessye Norman
Looking
Nobody
Sort
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
Jessye Norman
Word
Affliction
Spell
Say
Unable
Particular
Am
I'm dying always.
Jessye Norman
Always
Dying
I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.
Jessye Norman
Walk
Without
Mile
I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.
Jessye Norman
Before
More
Songs
Sing
Truly
Done
Want
Spanish
Things
I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not wanting to celebrate that. Every time that I can, I like to kind of mention it, you know, just to keep people sort of knowing exactly what's going on. My French is pretty good, but I'm still African, thank you very much.
Jessye Norman
Time
Good
You
Celebrate
People
Thank You
Every
Every Time
Kind
Exactly
Born
Pretty
Pretty Good
Mention
Like
Know
French
Knowing
Sort
Still
German
Very
Thank
Any
Going
Just
Africa
African
Wanting
Much
Roots
Reason
Keep
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