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"Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity."
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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
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"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."
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"Every old poem is sacred."
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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
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"The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better."
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"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."
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"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."
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"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
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"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."
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"I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned."
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"I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations."
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"On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there."
Being

"This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career."
Beginning

"Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?"
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"In the last century, everybody was singing lower."
Singing

"Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance."
Money

"But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows."
Opera

"The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it."
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"The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands."
Finance

"But enough joking. I am singing. This is all my life."
Life
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