Betty Buckley Quotes

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

My two great loves are music and horses.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

Don't perform, communicate and surrender!

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.