Jessye Norman quotes

Jessye Norman was an acclaimed American opera singer renowned for her powerful, expressive soprano voice. Her performances graced the world’s leading opera houses and concert halls. She remains an icon of vocal artistry and an inspiration for generations of musicians. Here are 20 of her quotes:

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)

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

Jessye Norman

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

Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension.

Jessye Norman

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

Jessye Norman

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

Jessye Norman

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

Jessye Norman

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.

Jessye Norman

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

Jessye Norman

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.

Jessye Norman

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing. (Jessye Norman)

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

Jessye Norman

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

Jessye Norman

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

'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

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

Jessye Norman

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

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

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

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Jessye Norman

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: September 15, 1945
Died: September 30, 2019
Quotes count: 20
Wikipedia: Jessye Norman

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