Beverly Sills Quotes

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for ... unless it's contagious!

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.

When you're in love, the whole world is Jewish.

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

There are an awful lot of skinny people in the cemetery.

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time ... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.