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• Beverly Sills:

  My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanke

• Beverly Sills:

  I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

• Beverly Sills:

  There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

• Beverly Sills:

  A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let

• Beverly Sills:

  I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

• Beverly Sills:

  In a sense, I revolutionized the operatic scene because I proved you can make a great international

• Beverly Sills:

  I never breathe through the nose, not when I'm singing. In the opera, you don't have so much time.

• Beverly Sills:

  You can't imitate; all our faces are constructed differently... and the vocal cords; otherwise, we'

• Beverly Sills:

  At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... ev

• Beverly Sills:

  This joyfulness that I felt when I sang, and this need to communicate with people, these are my two