Words matter. These are the best Danielle de Niese Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don’t really love shopping.
Unfortunately, opera engagements tend to be made five years in advance, and I don’t really agree with that.
My Mozart career began as a teenager in Los Angeles, singing arias from ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ and ‘Don Giovanni.’
Music can be a source of escapism.
Outreach appearances in the schools are usually part of my contracts, and I love doing them.
In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers’ biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I’ve still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can’t take that many books with you.
I got into singing when I was 6.
To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.
I have to take care of myself. It’s about self-preservation.
I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.
I know there are lots of regional accents in England, but I can’t tell them apart and I’m not really aware of class. I don’t pay any attention to those boundaries. I’m a California girl.
What I see as specially English is the charm – everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour – it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They’re so self-effacing.
From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me… to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas – for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.
Mozart is my first strength.
One of my favourite books of all time: ‘The Great Gatsby’. I just think it’s so well written.
I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey.
My professional life shouldn’t be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life’s blood. It’s my calling.
I’ve always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that’s the performer in me.
I’ve always considered myself to be a travelling soul. I’ve never felt out of place anywhere.
I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn’t have realised that dream.
I love Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik.
Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.
