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Sarah Caldwell

"That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions."

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"That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions."

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"If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera."
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"I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season."
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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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"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
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