Kiri Te Kanawa quotes
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“Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.”
-- Kiri Te KanawaSource : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
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“I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.”
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“The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.”
-- Kiri Te KanawaSource : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
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“I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.”
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“I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.”
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“I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.”
-- Kiri Te KanawaSource : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
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“I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.”
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“I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.”
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“I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.”
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“When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.”
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“When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.”
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“My children are my children. There's no doubt about that at all. They're very strong towards me, very protective, and I towards them. It works both ways.”
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“My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.”
-- Kiri Te Kanawa
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