That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.