Betty Buckley quotes
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“Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.”
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“As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.”
-- Betty BuckleySource : "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.
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“Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.”
-- Betty BuckleySource : "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.
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“Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.”
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“If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.”
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“There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.”
-- Betty BuckleySource : "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.
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“The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.”
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“So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.”
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“When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.”
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“We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.”
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“My two great loves are music and horses.”
-- Betty BuckleySource : Interview with Evan Smith, www.texasmonthly.com. September, 2006.
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“I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.”
-- Betty BuckleySource : Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.
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“I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.”
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“I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.”
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“For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.”
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“Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.”
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“The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.”
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“It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.”
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“Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?”
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“The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.”
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“It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.”
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“Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.”
-- Betty BuckleySource : "InDepth InterView: Betty Buckley". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 15, 2010.
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