Quotes by : Jessye Norman

I was given a stethoscope in a child's 'doctor's bag' at about age six and I loved it! One could hear....

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....

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend.....

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....