Nellie Melba Quotes

• La primera regla de la ópera es la primera regla de la vida: ocúpate de todo tú mismo.

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  Art, Opera, Firsts

  1925 Melodies and Memories.

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• Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

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  Art, Blue, Blood

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• There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

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  Two, Jelly, Absurdity

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• You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!

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  People, Worry, Worst

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• The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.

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  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

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  Art, Women, Australia

  Said to the conductor Fritz Hart. Quoted in John Thompson On Lips of LivingMen (1962).

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• What are we singers but the silver-voiced messengers of the poet and the musician?

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  Art, Musician, Singers

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• Si quieres entenderme (y escribir una autobiografía no es más que abrir una ventana al corazón de uno mismo), debes comprender ante todo que soy australiano.

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  Writing, Heart, Australia

  1925 Melodies and Memories, ch.1.

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• One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

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  Art, Women, Fame

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• Always sing below your potential.

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