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 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....

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

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....

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