Betty Buckley Quotes

• Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

  Betty Buckley

  Art, Musical, Actors

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• We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

  Betty Buckley

  Heart, Stories, May

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• When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

  Betty Buckley

  Opportunity

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• I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

  Betty Buckley

  Girl, Loud Voices, Purpose

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• Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

  Betty Buckley

  Pain, Different, Stories

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• Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

  Betty Buckley

  Focus, Capacity, Performances

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• Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

  Betty Buckley

  Teacher, Men, Years

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

  Betty Buckley

  Bridges, Rallying Point, Giving

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• It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

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  Texas, Acres, Littles

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• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  Betty Buckley

  Believe, Passion, Feminist

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• As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

  Betty Buckley

  Voice, Long, Able

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

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  Voice, Environment, Concerts

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• My two great loves are music and horses.

  Betty Buckley

  Horse, Two, Great Love

  Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September, 2006.

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• I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

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  People, Feelings, Culture

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• The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

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  Equality, Race, Giving

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• There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

  Betty Buckley

  Maintenance, Singers, Corny

  "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

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  Feminist, Semantics, Ifs

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• I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

  Betty Buckley

  Song, Two, Towns

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

  Betty Buckley

  Thinking, Class, White

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• For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.

  Betty Buckley

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

  Betty Buckley

  Feminist, Feminism, Identity

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• It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

  Betty Buckley

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Feminist

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• The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Rights

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• Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

  Betty Buckley

  Teacher, Giving, Taught

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