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Beverly Sills

I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!

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Beverly Sills

I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you’re on top, and that’s what I did.

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Beverly Sills

I think you have to take everything that looks like a blow and turn it into a triumph. This is where my energy comes from: I just won’t be licked.

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Beverly Sills

My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father’s doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father’s side when he was so sick.

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Beverly Sills

My parents never told me about Papa’s lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.

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Beverly Sills

Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.

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Beverly Sills

I love Massenet – ‘Manon’ had been a wonderful role for me – and the music he wrote for ‘Thais’ is quite enjoyable and not terribly demanding in a vocal sense.

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Beverly Sills

When I was general director of City Opera, we were pioneers in the practice of projecting supertitles so that American audiences finally could know what all the singing was about.

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Beverly Sills

I began by listening to my mother’s collection of Amelita Galli-Curci and Lily Pons records, and then was taken (at age eight) to hear Pons at a Met performance of Lakme. It was at that moment that I decided to become an opera star. Not just an opera singer, but an opera star!

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Beverly Sills

I was always the first person in the theater all the time. If it was an eight-o’clock curtain, I was here at five-thirty, and it wasn’t that I needed to vocalize, because I was all warmed up. I couldn’t wait for it to begin.

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Beverly Sills

This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two strongest points. I’ve always been a people person. I love people; I like to be with people, and when I got on stage, I was home free.

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Beverly Sills

At the beginning, I thought, ‘Oh, I can’t criticize a singer who’s doing a role that I adored… even a role I didn’t do.’ And then I thought, ‘The heck with that! Thirty years of experience… ask the girl who did it!’ And I feel that if they’re not willing to take what I have to say, that’s fine! But I’m going to say it.

– Beverly Sills

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