The Public Is A Monster And That

I Want To Be A Mature Artist With A Different Kind Of Thinking.

It Takes A Little More Time To Get Into The Role, But Not Very Much More. In Making A Record You Don't Have The Sense Of Projection Over A Distance As In An Opera House. We Have This Microphone And This Magnifies All Details Of A Performance, All Exaggerations. In The Theater, You Can Get Away With A Very Large, Very Grand Phrase. For The Microphone, You Have To Tone It Down. It's The Same As Making A Film, Your Gestures Will Be Seen In Close-up, So They Cannot Be Exaggerated As They Would Be In A Theater.

An Opera Begins Long Before The Curtain Goes Up And Ends Long After It Has Come Down. It Starts In My Imagination, It Becomes My Life, And It Stays Part Of My Life Long After I've Left The Opera House.

When Music Fails To Agree To The Ear, To Soothe The Ear And The Heart And The Senses, Then It Has Missed The Point.

It's A Terrible Thing To Go Through Life Thinking That You Have A Rock On Your Side When You Haven't.