Author: Jessye Norman

Quotes

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

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

- Jessye Norman

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

I enjoy reading about the lives of musicians, and find many similarities in their ideas of preparation and their utter devotion to this great, eternal language: music.

- Jessye Norman

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

- Jessye Norman

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.

- Jessye Norman

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

- Jessye Norman

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

- Jessye Norman

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

There has never been a time when I was not committed to, involved in, or caring of, the social and political issues of my world.

- Jessye Norman

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

- Jessye Norman

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.

- Jessye Norman

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