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<\/h3>\nEverything you need you already have. You are complete right now; you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.<\/span><\/h4>\n
\nRenee Fleming<\/h3>\n![\"rf10_credit_decca_andreweccles_640x397__large\"](\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/rf10_credit_decca_andreweccles_640x397__large.jpg\")
<\/h3>\nI was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let’s say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.<\/span><\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Maria Callas<\/h3>\n![\"Maria-Callas_wide\"](\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Maria-Callas_wide.jpg\")
<\/h3>\nAn opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination; it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I\u2019ve left the opera house. When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I\u2019m slipping. That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil\u2019s means; great teachers foresee a pupil\u2019s ends.<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n
Luciano Pavarotti<\/h3>\n![\"Luciano-Pavarotti\"](\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/Luciano-Pavarotti.jpg\")
<\/h3>\nIf children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.<\/em><\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Marian Anderson<\/h3>\n![\"marian-anderson-portrait\"](\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/marian-anderson-portrait.jpg\")
<\/h3>\nIt is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn\u2019t have this, and I didn\u2019t have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. When I sing, I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is black. I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.<\/h4>\n
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Renee Fleming<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nI was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let’s say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.<\/span><\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Maria Callas<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAn opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination; it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I\u2019ve left the opera house. When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I\u2019m slipping. That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil\u2019s means; great teachers foresee a pupil\u2019s ends.<\/h4>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
Luciano Pavarotti<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIf children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.<\/em><\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Marian Anderson<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIt is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn\u2019t have this, and I didn\u2019t have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. When I sing, I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is black. I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.<\/h4>\n
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<\/h3>\nI was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let’s say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.<\/span><\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Maria Callas<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nAn opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination; it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I\u2019ve left the opera house. When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I\u2019m slipping. That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil\u2019s means; great teachers foresee a pupil\u2019s ends.<\/h4>\n
\n
<\/p>\n
Luciano Pavarotti<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIf children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.<\/em><\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Marian Anderson<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIt is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn\u2019t have this, and I didn\u2019t have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. When I sing, I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is black. I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.<\/h4>\n
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<\/h3>\nAn opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination; it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I\u2019ve left the opera house. When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I\u2019m slipping. That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil\u2019s means; great teachers foresee a pupil\u2019s ends.<\/h4>\n
\n
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<\/h3>\nIf children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.<\/em><\/h4>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Marian Anderson<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIt is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn\u2019t have this, and I didn\u2019t have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. When I sing, I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is black. I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.<\/h4>\n
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Marian Anderson<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nIt is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn\u2019t have this, and I didn\u2019t have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. When I sing, I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is black. I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.<\/h4>\n
<\/h3>\nIt is easy to look back, self-indulgently, feeling pleasantly sorry for oneself and saying I didn\u2019t have this, and I didn\u2019t have that. But it is only the grown woman regretting the hardships of a little girl who never thought they were hardships at all. She had the things that really mattered. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God . . . When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. When I sing, I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is black. I don\u2019t want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.<\/h4>\n
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