Joyce DiDonato quotes
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“I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.”
-- Joyce DiDonatoSource : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.
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“You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.”
-- Joyce DiDonatoSource : Joyce DiDonato's Commencement Address at the Juilliard School in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2014.
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“It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.”
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“I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.”
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“I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.”
-- Joyce DiDonatoSource : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.
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“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”
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“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”
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“It’s tricky when you’re doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don’t have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.”
-- Joyce DiDonatoSource : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.
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“Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres”
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“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”
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“When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Source : "Killer Company" by Christopher Rice, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2014.
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