Beverly Sills Quotes

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

I don’t share blame. I don’t share credit. And I don’t share desserts.

There is no short cut to a place worth going.

The last major childhood disease remains and it’s the worst of them all: nuclear war.

Just sing it. Don’t prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you’ll lose.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Opera is music AND drama. I’m prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time… I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

I know that anybody who does all this and doesn’t have to, everything thinks she’s very driven. The truth is, I enjoy it all so! Can’t it be that simple? I think it is! I don’t feel overworked. I get a constant kick out of being heavily committed. Is that sick or something? God, what would I do sitting still?

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.