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"First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis."
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"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends."

"When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point."

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"I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged."
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