A Quote by Joan Sutherland

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.
If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.
If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.
You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
On tour, its either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. Youre just looking for any proof that youre not completely alone.
When youre in that scene, you really wonder if this is all youre ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.
The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.
I dont know if youre familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and youre soaking wet within 10 minutes.
If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.
If youre going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If youre going to make a scary movie, scare people well.
What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
Youre still beautiful to me, cause youre my mom.
Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where youre both championing a character and youre revolted by them.
Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; youre going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; its human nature.
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