Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Nellie Melba

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian musician Nellie Melba.

Last updated on November 14, 2024.

Dame Nellie Melba was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century, and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.

Australian - Musician | May 19, 1861 - February 23, 1931

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Always sing below your potential.

Nellie Melba

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Nellie Melba

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Nellie Melba

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

Do everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

Nellie Melba

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

Nellie Melba

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

Nellie Melba

The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

Nellie Melba

What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

Nellie Melba

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

Nellie Melba

If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.

Nellie Melba

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Nellie Melba

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