Montserrat Caballe Quotes
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.
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A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.
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African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.
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Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.
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They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.
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When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
