Jenny Lind quotes
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“I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!”
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“My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!”
-- Jenny LindSource : Jenny Lind, Amalia Wichmann (1966). “The lost letters of Jenny Lind”
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“If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!”
-- Jenny LindSource : Ernest Albert Spongberg, Jenny Lind (1920). “The life of Jenny Lind, Oct. 6, 1820-Nov. 2, 1887: a compilation from various sources, in commemoration of the centenary of her birth”
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“I do like to sing to God!”
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“It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.”
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“I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise”
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“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”
Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011
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