Words matter. These are the best Montserrat Caballe Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is the sensation of being tired but having a good feeling, you know, a sensation that you have done it honestly and given all your strength. And it is no matter that you feel like this, because this is what you have to do when you go into this sort of life. This is what I choose.
This has not changed: always like the first time, very, very nervous. But when the music begins, you are in the music, it’s a sort of transformation. Your feeling for the music is greater and has nothing to do with your nerves. You go out of yourself.
A soprano’s voice is a little like a mother’s cry, which is why it attracts all human beings.
Drama if I sing, drama if I don’t sing. What do you do?
I have never felt like a diva!
I love to sing with my daughter. Audiences like it because a mother-daughter pairing is a curiosity.
The moment you say, ‘Please, give me a reason for this’, then you are being impossible and temperamental.
If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.
You see, God has blessed me – I don’t know how else to say it – with a beautiful sound.
Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.
Music is part of life. It is not the real life. I belong to that first: family, children. The important things.
I may no longer sing as I did 30 years ago, but what I am doing, I am doing well.
I feel like a person who has dedicated her whole life to the music she loves.
The sound of a mother’s voice expresses a feeling of intimacy, which has a truly magical effect on the listener.
I am living against all predictions. The doctors say I am a sort of witch.
I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?
I don’t cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don’t just get up and sing the day after one of those.
When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.
You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.
