Joyce DiDonato quotes

“I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.”
-- Joyce DiDonato

Source : "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 DiDonato

Source : 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.”
-- Joyce DiDonato

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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.”
-- Joyce DiDonato

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“I think yoga builds strength, flexibility, and calming of the mind - which is never a bad thing.”
-- Joyce DiDonato

Source : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

#Yoga Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes

“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”
-- Joyce DiDonato

#Artist Quotes

“You will never make it. ‘It’ doesn’t exist for an artist.”
-- Joyce DiDonato

#Artist Quotes

“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 DiDonato

Source : "Drama Queens : A Conversation With Mezzo-Soprano Joyce DiDonato". Interview with Sean Martinfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

#Expression Quotes #Voice Quotes #Costumes Quotes

“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.”

“Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres”

“I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.”

“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”

“When I was a kid, I was always watching genre movies on TV.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.”

Source : "Killer Company" by Christopher Rice, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2014.

“Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.”