Musician Quotes

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.

The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.

I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

I am a person of the 18th century.

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.