There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

Next quotes

• Jessye Norman:

  I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To

• Jessye Norman:

  I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

• Jessye Norman:

  A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

• Jessye Norman:

  It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would b

• Jessye Norman:

  I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something tha

• Jessye Norman:

  I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages

• Jessye Norman:

  I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of c

• Jessye Norman:

  There have been occasions - and I think it's very good for any human being that such occasions woul

• Jessye Norman:

  I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to sh

• Jessye Norman:

  I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.