Quotes by : Jessye Norman

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou,....

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and....

I knew that I was loved. And that's such an important thing. And, of course, at such an early age, you....

I love singing jazz. I don't like the idea that classical music should be over here and jazz should be....

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.....

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed....

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need....

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That....

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and....