If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. |
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. |
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. |
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do. |
We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment. |
You know the amount of money you should have - you don't have it. To stimulate more, you just need to perform. What knocked us out finally was not enough money for both productions and building maintenance. It's not that we didn't want to do it - we couldn't. |