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... →
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... →
There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long... →
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 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 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... →
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer.... →
Grover Norquist
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them... →
Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down... →
Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.