Jessye Norman Quotes

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. Tha...

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya A...

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

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

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend...

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

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Straus...

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, y...

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hea...

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music ...

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to she...

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should ...