It is not always a matter of wild ovations and legendary performances. Sometimes you are just happy to get through an opera without trouble.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.
People have a right to criticize.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.