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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... →
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... →
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... →
I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or... →
I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great... →
I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you take it for granted. Of course your... →
I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be someplace else. It's all wonderful... →
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... →
I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that... →
I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed... →
I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in... →
I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing... →
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I... →
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