Joan Sutherland Quotes

• 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.

  Joan Sutherland

  Sports, Technique, Singers

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• I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

  Joan Sutherland

  Beauty, Bombshells, Knows

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• You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

  Joan Sutherland

  Facts, Remains

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• One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

  Joan Sutherland

  Talent, Given, Duty

  "Dame Joan Sutherland obituary" by Alan Blyth, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

  Joan Sutherland

  Crazy, Nice, People

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• If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

  Joan Sutherland

  Horse, Women, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

  Joan Sutherland

  Touching, World, Complicated

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• But I think that Australians have a sort of independence, and I think that, rightly or wrongly, they tend to make their own decisions as to how a thing has gone. Pioneers are apt to be like that. I think that it's not a bad idea. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

  Joan Sutherland

  Women, Thinking, Ideas

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• My voice was obviously God given and I have tried to give of myself honestly.

  Joan Sutherland

  Art, Voice, Giving

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• I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

  Joan Sutherland

  Play, Singing, Roles

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• I don't sing for anybody. I wouldn't sing for the Queen dear.

  Joan Sutherland

  Queens, Dear

  "Dame Joan Sutherland, operatic icon". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. 2005.

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• I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

  Joan Sutherland

  School, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

  Joan Sutherland

  Mother, Singers, Taught

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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