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"I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff."
Want
"It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist."
Emotional
"When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!"
Old
"There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible."
Company
"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."
Ability
"With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart."
Heart
"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."
Opera
"I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing."
Singing
"I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part."
Being
"I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like."
Experience
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"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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"Ironically, that was quite a bit of the appeal of Rumours. It's equally interesting on a musical level and as a soap opera."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on."
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"Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things."
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